Rigging artist

• Liaising with concept artists and animators about the physical attributes and movements of characters.

• Drawing character sketches showing key movements.

• Articulating characters within environments, layouts and backgrounds. 

• Creating joints and moving points to rotate and pivot. 
  Designing, testing and maintaining character set ups. 

• Ensuring character movements are fluid, free of glitches and believable. 

• Writing MEL scripts to customize software to specific animation requirements. 

• Developing tools and plug-ins to optimize animation.  

• Testing rigs and ensuring they hold up in animation.

Requirements

• Solid knowledge of human and animal anatomy. 

• Skills in facial animation preferably. 

• Strong mastering of MAYA rigging tools especially for the creation of joints and skeletons, skinning and weighting, IK configuration, blend shapes and deformers, nodes dependency. 

• Ability to articulate emotion through character facial and physical expression. 
  Ability to create character gait, walk and body language. 

• Highly organized, ability to work methodically.

• Solid knowledge of human and animal anatomy.
• Skills in facial animation preferably.
• Strong mastering of MAYA rigging tools especially for the creation of joints and skeletons, skinning and weighting, IK configuration, blend shapes and deformers, nodes dependency.
• Ability to articulate emotion through character facial and physical expression.
• Highly organized, ability to work methodically.