Senior Rigger - Remote Unreal Engine & Tooling

Escape Velocity Entertainment; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Dental Healthcare

Mental Health scheme

Wellbeing allowance

Studio Bonus

Home workstation setup

Job summary

Escape Velocity is seeking a Senior Rigger to lead skinning and rigging for our character line, build tooling to streamline work, and collaborate with the Art Director and Animators to meet movement goals in Maya and Unreal Engine.

You will work on runtime deformations, RBF and simulated assets, and help define efficient pipelines while keeping the creative vision intact. This role is fully remote and supports a global team.

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 when needed.
• Scripting experience to write rigging tools, skinning tools and more.
• Researching and developing new techniques, approaches and solutions as required.
• Talented team player and problem solver.

Responsibilities

• Rigging and skinning of a wide variety of characters using existing tools and drive the development of new tools to aid and improve runtime deformations.
• Work on RBF runtime deformers, runtime Physics and other simulated assets
• Your rigs will allow animators to deliver high-quality keyframe animation uncompromised by limitations of technical processes.
• Defining workflows and pipelines in consultation with your colleagues and developing and improving in-house tools as needed while remaining aware of the impact of your decisions on other disciplines.
• Researching and developing new techniques, approaches and solutions as required.
• Keeping pipelines simple and effective.

Skills

Maya rigging

Unreal engine rigging

Animation-ready rigs

Rigging scripting

R&D for rigs

Team collaboration

Tools

Maya

Unreal Engine

Job description

Escape Velocity is seeking a Senior Rigger to lead skinning and rigging for our character line, build tooling to streamline work, and collaborate with the Art Director and Animators to meet movement goals in Maya and Unreal Engine.

You will work on runtime deformations, RBF and simulated assets, and help define efficient pipelines while keeping the creative vision intact. This role is fully remote and supports a global team.