Senior Technical Artist: Rigging Specialist

3 weeks ago

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

Rockstar Toronto is seeking a highly skilled Senior Technical Artist: Rigging to join our team. As a key member of our development 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
  • Develop and maintain 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.
Preferred Skills
  • Knowledge of game engines (e.g. Unreal/Unity or proprietary tech).
  • Experience creating Animation scripts/tools for Motionbuilder, Maya, 3dsMax.
  • Experience creating assets and pipelines using Houdini in production.
  • Experience with C++.
  • Experience using source control software (i.e. Perforce, Git) and working on a code base collaboratively.
About Rockstar Toronto

At Rockstar Toronto, we create world-class entertainment experiences. We are a dedicated and inclusive environment where you can learn, collaborate with talented people, and work on ambitious projects.

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