Senior Rigger

Senior Rigger (Immediate Start - August, 2025)

As Senior Rigger, you will be responsible for developing, testing, troubleshooting, maintaining, and implementing rigs for a wide variety of shows within the studio. You're an anatomy aficionado, you have a distinct knack for character movement mechanics. You love a collaborative environment and you're keen to share your expertise with your team with a passion for mentoring junior artists.

Responsibilities:

1. Mentoring entry-level artists
2. Providing and maintaining rigs for various characters, creatures, facial, vehicles, and props in Maya
3. Troubleshooting rigging pipeline issues proficiently under the guidance of supervisors
4. Coordinating with the animation team to fulfill their needs and build efficient rigs
5. Communicating with the modeling team on the suitability of models for rigging
6. Incorporating feedback from the supervisor to meet expectations
7. Actively researching and studying innovative ways of rigging to produce light and user-friendly rigs

Requirements:

1. Minimum 5 years of rigging experience working on high-end projects.
2. Knowledge and experience using modular rigging systems
3. Comprehensive knowledge of Maya
4. Experience with Python scripting is a must
5. A reel demonstrating mechanical rigging abilities
6. Strong comprehensive knowledge of anatomy, deformation, and mechanics of movement
7. Experience with muscle systems is a plus
8. Good organizational and communication skills
9. Ability to take on a delegated task with minimal supervision
10. Attention to detail and creative problem solving
11. Ability to work well within a team environment and willingness to share knowledge
12. Ability to work well under the pressure of tight deadlines
13. Ability to learn quickly and assimilate new information

Additional Requirements:

1. Must be eligible to work in Canada.

About Pixomondo:

PXO, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company, creates industry-leading Visualization, Virtual Production, and Visual Effects for premium Film and Episodic content. Through its 23-year history, the Oscar, BAFTA, & Emmy-winning creative and technology company has been a trusted partner for storytellers and showrunners worldwide. The company has consistently created iconic works, from Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning Hugo and multiple seasons of HBO's Emmy-winning Game of Thrones to the recent House of the Dragon, Amazon's The Boys, and Lionsgate's John Wick: Chapter 4.

In Virtual Production, PXO collaborates with filmmakers from first drawing to final pixel. Using interactive technology and proprietary software and tools, PXO brings ideas to life by virtually immersing filmmakers in the worlds they imagine, throughout every stage of the creative process.

The company's LED virtual production work includes House of the Dragon, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Reacher, and Amazon's critically acclaimed Cada Minuto Cuenta. PXO has seven creative studios and three LED volumes in the US, UK, Germany, and Canada.

Reference: ECNJOBID-3-67-103-209 in the application