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Nimble Giant Entertainment

Technical Animator – Rigging

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Nimble Giant Entertainment

📋 Description

• Create and maintain high-quality character, weapon, props, and creature rigs for real-time applications.

• Refine skinning, deformation systems, and blend shape setups to achieve top visual quality.

• Collaborate with Animators to ensure intuitive, efficient, and production-ready rigs.

• Integrate assets seamlessly into the game engine with Character Artists, Modelers, and Engineers.

• Implement and support rigs in Unreal Engine, ensuring compatibility with animation systems and gameplay needs.

• Utilize Animation Blueprints for animation logic and state machines when necessary.

• Develop rigging tools and pipeline solutions to enhance team efficiency, primarily in Maya or similar DCCs.

• Troubleshoot and support issues related to rigs, skinning, and animation workflows.

• Identify opportunities for improvement in the animation pipeline and act as a technical point of contact for rigging challenges.


⛳️ Requirements

• Expertise in rigging, skinning, and deformation systems for characters and creatures.

• Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine animation pipeline, including Animation Blueprints.

• Understanding of the full 3D art pipeline, including modeling, rigging, skinning, export, and integration.

• Building and maintaining custom rigging tools and workflows experience.

• Proficiency with 3D DCC tools (Maya preferred) for rig creation and tool development.

• Knowledge of real-time constraints and optimization for game development.

• Familiarity with physics-based systems like cloth, hair, secondary motion rigs.

• Basic to intermediate programming/scripting skills (Python, C#, or C++).

• Strong problem-solving abilities and collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams.

• Fluency in English and Spanish (written and spoken).


🏝️ Benefits

• Emphasis on excellence as a core value.

• Continuous learning opportunities to stay at the forefront of the industry.

• Fun and relaxed work environment with flexibility.

• Encouragement of diverse talent through inclusion and diversity initiatives.

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