Technical Animator: Rigging Metahuman & Cloth Simulation

Sumo Digital; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

35 hours/week

Annual bonus

Generous holiday

Learning & Development Days

Employee Assistance Programme

Relocation support

Job summary

Red Kite is a Leeds-based studio known for AAA PC and console games. We offer a flexible benefits package and a dynamic, social workplace with top-tier publishing partners and award-winning culture.

The team works across diverse projects, using cutting-edge technologies while delivering high-quality character and asset pipelines. This role focuses on rigging, Metahuman setups, and integration with Unreal assets.

Qualifications

• Experience with character, prop and vehicle rigging with mGear.
• Experience with Metahuman biped templates and Radial Basis Functions. (Familiarity with custom build steps would be a bonus.)
• Maya skinning experience.
• Experience in nCloth and Houdini cloth simulation rigs.
• Python scripting and tools writing would be a welcome addition to your skillset.

Responsibilities

• Character Rig Creation: Using mGear and a Metahuman biped templates.
• Maya Outfits Skinning: Focusing on character costuming and topology, with secondary motion and physics where necessary, in Unreal.
• Prop Rigging: mGear rigging with simple controls for mechanical parts and pre-designed movement.
• Vehicle Rigging: Building initial basic skeletons, and occasional mGear Animation rigs. Working with the modelling team and pipelines for the skeletal positions and Nanite attached-meshes.
• Metahuman Head Rig Setups: Tweaking Metahuman Radial Basis Functions and any other special requirements on scanning and character art.
• Pre-simulated Clothing Deformation: Setting up nCloth simulation rig to connect with animation and assets exported from cinematic sequences via content pipeline.

Skills

mGear rigging

Metahuman templates

Radial Basis Functions

Maya skinning

nCloth

Houdini cloth

Python scripting

Job description

Red Kite is a Leeds-based studio known for AAA PC and console games. We offer a flexible benefits package and a dynamic, social workplace with top-tier publishing partners and award-winning culture.

The team works across diverse projects, using cutting-edge technologies while delivering high-quality character and asset pipelines. This role focuses on rigging, Metahuman setups, and integration with Unreal assets.