Senior Technical Artist

1 month ago


Oakville, Ontario, Canada Rockstar Full time
Job Title: Senior Technical Artist

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Technical Artist to join our team at Rockstar Games. As a Senior Technical Artist, you will be responsible for designing, creating, and maintaining highly complex character rigs, secondary motion, and animation systems that bring our characters to life.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and support our titles by creating and maintaining complex character rigs, secondary motion, and animation systems.
  • Collaborate with Character Artists and Animators to provide support and address feedback to achieve the best visual results in game.
  • Work with other departments such as Tools, Machine Learning, and Code teams to improve our authoring workflows and animation/graphics systems in runtime.
  • Build, test, and maintain rigs for a variety of dynamic art assets.
  • Develop constraints, custom deformers, secondary motion, and shader connections using our proprietary runtime animation system.
  • Create tools within 3ds Max/Maya to support and push forward workflows across Rigging and Character Art.
Requirements:
  • A relevant degree or professional experience in the game industry as a Character Rigger, Technical Animator, or similar/related position.
  • ~5+ years of production experience creating complex rigs for Games, Feature Films, or VFX.
  • A demo reel and online portfolio that demonstrates exceptional skills creating motion controls for animation, complex deformation, and skinning of body and face of characters and creatures.
  • Understanding of human body and facial anatomy as it relates to game assets and topology.
  • Strong Python, Mel, or Maxscript skills used within DCCs.
  • Strong C# programming skills.
  • 3D Math background.
  • Experience using other game engines (e.g. Unreal/Unity or proprietary tech) with relation to Animation.
What We Offer:

We offer a dynamic and creative work environment, opportunities for professional growth and development, and a competitive compensation package.

In line with our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we welcome applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.



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