Senior Rigger: Fully Remote (Maya/Unreal Tooling)

Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Summer and Winter holidays

Private medical & dental healthcare

Wellbeing allowance

Studio bonus

Top tech for home setup

Job summary

Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc. seeks a Senior Rigger to own character skinning and rigging, build tools for rigging and workflows, and collaborate with Art Directors and Animators.

The role covers Maya and Unreal-based pipelines, including Control Rig and runtime deformations, while maintaining efficient, animator-friendly rigs. The team operates fully remotely, supporting talent nearly anywhere in the world.

Qualifications

• Excellent skill in rigging in Maya.
• Experience in dynamics and rigging in Unreal engine.
• Rigs that are solid and effective for animators and fast iterations.
• Scripting experience to write rigging tools and skinning tools.
• Researching and developing new techniques and solutions as required.
• Team player and problem solver.

Responsibilities

• Rigging and skinning of a variety of characters using existing tools; develop new tools to improve runtime deformations.
• Work on RBF runtime deformers, runtime physics and other simulated assets.
• Rigs enable animators to deliver high-quality keyframe animation without technical constraints.
• Define workflows and pipelines; improve in-house tools; consider impact on other disciplines.
• Research new techniques and approaches as required.
• Keep pipelines simple and effective.

Skills

Maya rigging

Unreal engine rigging

Scripting for rigs

Animation collaboration

Tools

Maya

Unreal Engine

Control Rig

Job description

Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc. seeks a Senior Rigger to own character skinning and rigging, build tools for rigging and workflows, and collaborate with Art Directors and Animators.

The role covers Maya and Unreal-based pipelines, including Control Rig and runtime deformations, while maintaining efficient, animator-friendly rigs. The team operates fully remotely, supporting talent nearly anywhere in the world.