Technical Animator/Rigger

1 month ago


Vancouver Metro Vancouver Regional District, CA COMPANY 3 Full time

POSITION SUMMARY:

Method’s Real-Time division is looking for an experienced Technical Animator & Rigger to join our Vancouver team.

MAIN DUTIES:

  1. Work with the CG Supervisor, Rigging, Animation, and Modeling Leads to provide creative iterative problem solving.
  2. Create, maintain, test, and debug animation tools and pipelines.
  3. You will ensure art content and features are easily integrated and aligned with our artistic vision, while also considering technical constraints.
  4. Identify problems and guide the team toward better workflows through automation and tools.
  5. Conduct communications between artists and dev team to optimize workflow.
  6. Work with the Real-time team implementing the rigs and rigging the assets;
  7. Design efficient rigs appropriate to the production’s needs;
  8. Design, test, and maintain character set ups;

WHAT YOU BRING:

The successful candidate will bring prior experience from a similar role. They will be experienced in working within Unreal or equivalent real-time engine. They will have proven experience with animation implementation in games or film and knowledge of animation retargeting and sharing. Additional desired skills include:

  1. Software: Maya, Unreal, or equivalent game engine, Motionbuilder (bonus)
  2. Programming: Python, Maya API, Motionbuilder API (bonus)

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Company 3 / Method Studios provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production, experiences, and more.

Diversity and Inclusion at Company 3 / Method Studios:

It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the company's HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.

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