Description

B-water Animation is looking for a Senior Rigger to join our team!

As a global animation studio value the company culture as a vibrant multinational and multicultural environment provideing many ways for you to be intrinsically involved and contribute to projects in a meaningful way.

As an industry forever simmering with ingenuity, we are dedicated to the creative process, working together to shape a new era of animation.

Here everyone has a voice, and everyone is free to pitch in with their ideas and suggestions.

Feel free to apply or tell a friend and good luck!

Requirements:

- 5 years of professional experience in VFX or animation industries.

- 3 years quality experience in rigging capacity

- Full working knowledge of Maya/Blender and Maya/Blender rigging (full body/facial).

- Comfortable with the more technical aspects of character work, and have strong, critical visual and artistic skills.

- Excellent command of human anatomy, volume and weight, dynamics and character motion

- Superlative written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative, supportive approach to working with other team members

- Strong proficiency in English language.

Responsibilities:

- Experience with R&D requirements gathering and authoring production documentation, creating templates, libraries and tools

- Sound understanding of the animation process from storyboard to modelling to texturing, animation and rendering

- Advanced, applied technical computer animation knowledge such as lighting rigs, rendering, dynamics, and other related scripting, interface and tools development

- Follow a brief to produce complex production ready rig deformations of a high standard.

- Work with Animators to aid with deformation rigs and/or a broad range of motion requirements.

- Support rigs as they move through the pipeline and aid with additional deformation fixes for character shots.

- Define animation controls and rigging systems to be used by other departments, such as Animation and Layout.

- Work within the pipeline and rigging standards.

- Collaborates with other team members when necessary.

- Follows the Supervisor’s and Lead's guidance.

- Interact with production, Supervisors and the team to problem solve and share information related to tasks assigned.