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About us: Ninja Theory is a five-time Bafta award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK and part of Xbox Game Studios. Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are building the team that will help us fulfil that promise.  

Your role: As part of the Rigging team you will collaborate with Character Art and Animation teams to create exceptional quality character rigs that will help bring our creative vision to life. You will work with a variety of photo-real humanoids and creatures, developing puppet and deformation rigs including clothing, fur/hair muscle and skin. You will also work with key external partners to develop facial performance capture pipelines and deformation solutions, and ensure we stay at the cutting edge of game development by leveraging technologies such as 4D scanning and ML deformers for both current and future projects.

Requirements

Your skill: You will have a strong desire to push real-time characters beyond commonly accepted standards, able to leverage both existing and new/emerging technologies in the pursuit of this.

You will have:

  • Demonstrable ability to author powerful and efficient puppet rigs.
  • An in-depth knowledge of anatomy.
  • Thorough understanding in both the technical and aesthetic elements of biomechanics and kinesiology for humanoids/animals and the ability to translate this into highly realistic character rigs.
  • Excellent knowledge of Maya.
  • Good Python skills, with the ability to write clear, well-structured, and documented code.
  • The ability to lead discussions and mentor others.

Your experience: As well as the above skills you will also have:

  • A thorough understanding of current rigging and animation pipelines.
  • Production experience with realistic characters in a real-time environment.

As a bonus you may also have:

  • Unreal Engine experience.
  • Ability to prototype custom deformers.

Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity

We offer great pay, wide-ranging benefits, and flexible working arrangements so you can focus on what matters. We avoid hierarchy, egos, and crunch, preferring trust, talent, and experience to see us through. You will be part of a family, a clan of ninjas who know what it takes to succeed, and who will encourage and support you to do the same.

Please note, this advert closes on Sunday 11th July.