Company Description:
Anima Vitae Point creates international animated films and series with passion and a unique approach. As a company, we strive to be innovative, nurture fresh ideas, and employ artists and technical personnel side by side. As the home of other super-talented artists and technicians, Anima is a place where you truly can make an impact on your work, ideas, and craftsmanship.
We are currently looking for a Senior Rigging Artist to join our quest.
Job Summary:
The Senior Rigging Artist is responsible for designing and maintaining a smooth and efficient rig for CG assets. He or she must have a strong understanding of CG pipelines and production methods and a strong management style with excellent organizational and artistic skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver high quality rig within the schedule and budget
- Help improve the rigging process between modelling and animation
- Develop tools to automate character rigs for long form productions
- Provide suggestions and solution whenever needed
- Initiate the process to check the modelers work to ensure that the model works before handing over to rigging
- Assist and guide modelers to create a good model with good topology
- Provide assistance and guidance to junior or intermediate rigger
- Communicate with all departments
- Encourage and inspire team mates to improve and stay positive
- Provide suggestions and solution whenever needed
- Work with Supervisor and Animation Director to create rigs that are suitable for animation
- Maintain timing and production quotas given by the coordination team and the Supervisor
- Work with the Supervisor to ensure the integration and maintenance of configurations
- Maintain good team dynamics
Required Skills:
- 3+ years of industry (CG and/or Visual Effects) or equivalent rigging experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Computer Animation, or other relevant areas of study and/or equivalent job experience
- Comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of CG, pipeline and associated software/plugins
- Experience in a variety of Maya rigging techniques, and the ability to optimize the performance of rigs
- Good communication skills and excellent team player
- Strong sense of anatomy
- Be comfortable with a LINUX environment
- A creative problem-solver
- Basic modeling skills and ability to understand polygonal mesh flow
- Strong knowledge of character kinematics, deformation and biomechanics
- Experience rigging a variety of characters and props, including facial animation systems
- Experience with Python and MEL is a plus
- Knowledge of dynamics is a plus