Technical Animator – Rigging & Metahuman (Flexible Hours)

Sumo Digital Ltd.; Leeds; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexitime

35 hours per week

Annual bonus

Generous holiday allowance

Learning & Development Days

Employee Assistance Programme

Relocation Support

Job summary

Red Kite in Leeds seeks a Rigging Artist to create character, prop and vehicle rigs using mGear. You will work with Metahuman templates and develop cloth and hair simulations in Unreal and Houdini, ensuring efficient pipelines from modelling to animation.

The role emphasizes technical rigging, asset integration with Nanite, and collaboration with modelling teams across a variety of AAA projects.

Qualifications

• Experience with character, prop and vehicle rigging with mGear.
• Experience with Metahuman biped templates and Radial Basis Functions.
• Experience in nCloth and Houdini cloth simulation rigs.

Responsibilities

• Character Rig Creation using mGear and Metahuman templates.
• Maya Outfits Skinning focusing on costuming and topology in Unreal.
• Prop Rigging with simple controls for mechanical parts.
• Vehicle Rigging with basic skeletons and Nanite meshes coordination.
• Metahuman Head Rig setups and adjustments for scanning and art pipelines.
• Pre-simulated Clothing Deformation with nCloth connected to animation assets.

Skills

Character rigging

Metahuman templates

nCloth simulation

Python scripting

Maya / Unreal pipelines

Tools

mGear

Houdini

Job description

Red Kite in Leeds seeks a Rigging Artist to create character, prop and vehicle rigs using mGear. You will work with Metahuman templates and develop cloth and hair simulations in Unreal and Houdini, ensuring efficient pipelines from modelling to animation.

The role emphasizes technical rigging, asset integration with Nanite, and collaboration with modelling teams across a variety of AAA projects.