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Senior Technical Artist - Rigging

Sony Bend Studio, renowned creator of Days Gone , Uncharted: Golden Abyss , and Syphon Filter , is seeking outstanding talent to join our passionate and creative family in crafting our next high-profile AAA console title.

We are seeking a Senior Technical Artist who will be responsible for creating and/or maintaining rigged assets and defining tools and processes that assist in all areas of character asset creation. This person will be working closely with the Characters, Props, Vehicles and Animation teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Create high quality character rigs with cinematic-quality facial articulation.
  • Develop and maintain character and animation tools.
  • Develop character rigs and skeletons that meet the technical limitations of game engines while insuring the characters movements look as realistic as possible.
  • Develop and implement skinning methods to achieve realistic deformation for faces, bodies, and clothes, including the creation of tools and scripts to assist in completing these tasks quickly and efficiently during production.
  • Develop animation tools to assist in the creation of character animation and motion capture clean up, using layers, blends, FK and IK setups, etc.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of production experience in Games, Feature Film, Animation or VFX.
  • Expert understanding of Python.
  • Expert understanding of Maya.
  • Extensive portfolio with examples of current, hands-on work, including human, creature, and animal rigs. Examples of cinematic quality face rigs.
  • Multiple examples of tools and scripts to assist in the creation of character rigging assets.
  • Some previous or next-gen video game platform experience is desirable (e.g. PS4, Xbox-One.)

Bonus Qualifications

  • Experience with animation retargeting
  • Knowledge of Maya API.
  • Understanding of C++.

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