Senior Rigger/Technical Animator

4 weeks ago

Malmo, Skåne, Sweden Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio Full time

Career Opportunity

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Rigger/Technical Animator to join our Cinematics team at Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for innovating technical animation solutions daily, collaborating with art and animation teams, and ensuring that characters deformations are at the right quality level.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the art & animation teams to understand the overall project vision and rigging and skinning needs.
  • Hands-on rigging for characters, creatures, and objects for games.
  • Provide rigging solutions to character art and character animation.
  • Work with production teams to create the desired animation controls and qualities for objects and characters.
  • Test and troubleshoot animation controls and adjust as necessary throughout the production cycle.
  • Research and keep up to date with new rigging solutions to advance our pipeline and workflows to the next level.
  • Collaborate with the team to develop current and new tools, rig-modules, workflow, and plugins.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in art, engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Specific experience of Character/Creature rigging & skinning with strong foundations on rigging in general.
  • Extensive knowledge and experience of animation, modeling, and other related experience.
  • Thorough knowledge of human and creature anatomy, deformation, and rigging techniques.
  • Expert knowledge of Maya.
  • Knowledge of scripting in Python.
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
  • Solid experience working in Motionbuilder.
  • It's a bonus if you have previous experience in Houdini.

About Us

Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio is a leading game development studio, and we're committed to creating innovative and engaging experiences for our players. We're looking for talented individuals who share our passion for gaming and are eager to contribute to our team's success.

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