Senior Rigging Artist at Skydance Media

Skydance Media; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Skydance Media in Madrid, MD, ES is seeking an experienced Rigging TD for an on-site, full-time role. The position offers growth opportunities within a dynamic and evolving culture focused on high-quality, storytelling-driven animation.

The ideal candidate has extensive facial and body rigging experience, strong Maya and Python scripting skills, and a deep understanding of production pipelines. English proficiency is required; Spanish is a plus.

Formación

• 5+ years in VFX or animation industries.
• 3+ years in the animation industry.
• Strong artistic and technical rigging skills.
• Proficiency in Maya in a production environment.
• Experience with sculpting tools in Body, Face and Shot-Finaling.
• Advanced Python scripting follows coding standards including Qt Interfaces and UX.
• High English level; Spanish desirable.

Responsabilidades

• Has strong facial deformation and body rigging experience.
• Sculpts expressions with strong artistry.
• Develops and maintains procedural rig components focused on deformation.
• Produces complex production-ready rig deformations per brief.
• Collaborates with Animators to assist deformation rigs and broaden motion range.
• Troubleshoots rig issues and tunes behavior.

Conocimientos

Rigging

Maya proficiency

Python scripting

Facial rigging

Body rigging

English proficiency

Spanish desirable

Herramientas

Maya

ZBrush

Qt

Descripción del empleo

at Skydance Media in Madrid, MD, ES. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling. While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working, Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the world’s most collaborative art form can achieve, and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio that’s doing something different.

Responsibilities

• Has strong experience in facial deformation but also experience in body rigging.
• Has strong experience sculpting expressions.
• Develops and maintains procedural rig components with a specific focus on deformation, using custom tools.
• Follows a brief to produce complex production-ready rig deformations.
• Works with Animators to aid with deformation rigs to provide a broad range of motion.
• Supports rigs as they move through the pipeline and provides additional deformation fixes as needed.
• Is responsible for building body, facial and mechanical rig systems to be used by other departments, such as Crowds, Animation and Layout.
• Troubleshoots and fixes rig issues.
• Collects artistic feedback and fine-tunes rig behavior.
• Works within the pipeline and rigging standards.
• Keeps up with current artistic methodologies and technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company in the development of a stronger creative and technical environment.
• Delivers on time following Production quality standards.
• Prototype, develops and implements new techniques and processes to solve unique and technical character production challenges.
• Works together with the team , providing them with support, guidance and instruction in areas that contribute towards their artistic and professional growth.
• Follows the Supervisor’s and Lead's guidance.

Requirements

• 5+ years in VFX or animation industries.
• 3+ years in the animation industry.
• Strong artistic and technical rigging skills.
• Proficiency within a character pipeline.
• Proficiency in using Maya in a production environment.
• Experience with sculpting tools in Body, Face and Shot-Finaling.
• Solid understanding of the principles of animation.
• Extensive anatomical knowledge of facial muscles and their kinematics functions.
• Advanced Python scripting follows coding standards including Qt Interfaces and UX.
• Desirable C/C++ developing knowledge.
• Knowledge of artistic modeling and anatomy tools is a plus.
• High English level.
• Spanish desirable.

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Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive, and animation divisions.