Senior Rigging Artist — Hybrid Studio Animation

SKYDANCE; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Skydance Animation in Madrid is seeking a Senior Rigger to develop, implement, maintain and support character and prop deformation rigs for use in Crowds, Layout and Animation. You will collaborate closely with the Rigging Supervisor and multiple departments including R&D, Art and Modeling, delivering production-ready rigs and advancing techniques to improve the pipeline.

The role requires 5+ years in VFX or animation, strong artistic and technical rigging skills, Maya proficiency, and excellent

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Has strong experience in facial deformation but also experience in body rigging.
• 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.

Skills

Facial rigging

Body rigging

Procedural rigs

Maya production

Python scripting

C/C++ knowledge

Anatomy knowledge

Pipeline proficiency

English language

Spanish desirable

Tools

Qt Interfaces

Job description

Skydance Animation in Madrid is seeking a Senior Rigger to develop, implement, maintain and support character and prop deformation rigs for use in Crowds, Layout and Animation. You will collaborate closely with the Rigging Supervisor and multiple departments including R&D, Art and Modeling, delivering production-ready rigs and advancing techniques to improve the pipeline.

The role requires 5+ years in VFX or animation, strong artistic and technical rigging skills, Maya proficiency, and excellent