The Animator is responsible for developing and setting up rigs, skinning characters and assets and creating tools that improve the production’s workflow. He/she works in close collaboration with modelers and animators to ensure that there are no technical problems met, or hindering of the work of other team members.

Job Responsibilities

Recognize proper mesh topology as well as repair and/or give feedback to the 3D modelers on mesh creation, UV’s, blendshapes, and textures.
Rigging and skinning of the characters to meet the needs of stakeholders within the team (i.e. animators, artist, technical art)
Collaborate with technical artist and tool programmers to create tools that increase the effectiveness of the production’s workflow;
Manage the Cinematic pipeline from Motion Builder to Maya to Unreal.
Own the setup and maintenance of the Unreal Sequencer pipeline and any custom tools required.

Experience

Advance experience with Maya
Intermediate knowledge of 3DMax
Understanding of FAC System
Experience with IK setup, set driven keys, Mel scripting, and Python.
Experience with motion capture data cleanup.
Experience with Motion Builder.
Ability to problem solve technical rigging issues.
Good sense of body mechanics and proportions.
Experience in rigging a character.
Experience with rigging quadpeds, creatures.
Experience using Unreal’s sequencer and some intermediate knowledge of blueprints.
Experience working with performance and optimization on Console a plus.
Houdini experience is a plus.