Senior Technical Artist: Rigging Specialist

3 days ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Rockstar Toronto Full time
About the Role

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

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and develop highly 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 the 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.
Requirements
  • A relevant degree or professional experience in the game industry as a Character Rigger, Technical Animator, or similar/related position.
  • 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.
  • Strong Python, Mel, or Maxscript skills used within DCCs.
  • Strong C# programming skills.
  • 3D Math background.
What We Offer

As a Senior Technical Artist: Rigging at Rockstar Toronto, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most creatively rewarding and ambitious projects in the industry. You will be part of a dedicated and inclusive environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.



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