Senior Rigging Artist

Company Description:

Anima Vitae Point creates international animated films and series with passion and a unique approach. As a company, we strive to be innovative, nurture fresh ideas, and employ artists and technical personnel side by side. As the home of other super-talented artists and technicians, Anima is a place where you truly can make an impact on your work, ideas, and craftsmanship.

We are currently looking for a Senior Rigging Artist to join our quest.

Job Summary:

The Senior Rigging Artist is responsible for designing and maintaining a smooth and efficient rig for CG assets. He or she must have a strong understanding of CG pipelines and production methods and a strong management style with excellent organizational and artistic skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver high quality rig within the schedule and budget.
• Help improve the rigging process between modelling and animation.
• Develop tools to automate character rigs for long form productions.
• Provide suggestions and solutions whenever needed.
• Initiate the process to check the modelers' work to ensure that the model works before handing over to rigging.
• Assist and guide modelers to create a good model with good topology.
• Provide assistance and guidance to junior or intermediate riggers.
• Communicate with all departments.
• Encourage and inspire teammates to improve and stay positive.
• Work with Supervisor and Animation Director to create rigs that are suitable for animation.
• Maintain timing and production quotas given by the coordination team and the Supervisor.
• Work with the Supervisor to ensure the integration and maintenance of configurations.
• Maintain good team dynamics.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of industry (CG and/or Visual Effects) or equivalent rigging experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Computer Animation, or other relevant areas of study and/or equivalent job experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of CG, pipeline and associated software/plugins.
• Experience in a variety of Maya rigging techniques and the ability to optimize the performance of rigs.
• Good communication skills and excellent team player.
• Strong sense of anatomy.
• Be comfortable with a LINUX environment.
• A creative problem-solver.
• Basic modeling skills and ability to understand polygonal mesh flow.
• Strong knowledge of character kinematics, deformation and biomechanics.
• Experience rigging a variety of characters and props, including facial animation systems.
• Experience with Python and MEL is a plus.
• Knowledge of dynamics is a plus.

Remark:
This position will require the successful applicant to relocate and work on-site at our studio in Malaysia.