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Rigger / Technical Artist
1 year ago
Location: Work from home or from our brand-new studio in Cambridge, UK.
Level: Mid and above.
About us: Ninja Theory is a five-time BAFTA award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK, and part of Xbox Game Studios.
Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are building the team that will help us fulfil that promise.
Your Role: As part of the Technical Art team, you will collaborate with Character Art and Animation disciplines to create exceptional quality characters that will help bring our creative vision to life. You will work on high-end characters, developing puppet, deformation and runtime rigs including facial, clothing, fur/hair muscle and skin simulations.
Requirements
We believe that skills and experience are not mutually exclusive. For that reason, we encourage you to apply even if you feel you don't meet 100% of the requirements listed below.
Your Skill:
You will have a strong desire to push what is achievable for real-time characters within the games medium. You'll have the expertise to leverage both existing and emerging technologies in the pursuit of this.
Essential:
- Demonstrable talent to author powerful and efficient puppet rigs.
- Knowledge of anatomy and application to deformation rigs.
- In depth knowledge of Maya.
- Strong Python knowledge and ability to write clear, well-structured code.
- Be able to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Problem solving skills.
Your Experience:
Essential:
- Relevant industry experience Game/Film/TV.
Desirable:
- Unreal Experience
- Knowledge of Houdini
- Good understanding of Linear Algebra
- Familiar with MotionBuilder and motion capture pipelines
Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity.
Our Benefits: We offer wide-ranging benefits, including, but not limited to:
- Hybrid, flexible work model with no fixed working hours.
- 5 weeks holiday plus 1 additional day for each year of service up to a maximum of 33 days per annum, plus bank holidays.
- Enhanced parental leave.
- Bonus scheme.
- Annual wellbeing allowance.
- Private healthcare including medical, dental, and optical cover.
- Mentoring and career development.
- Income protection.
- Life Insurance.
- Where applicable, relocation assistance and visa sponsorship.
For those working from Ninja House, you will benefit from our custom-built studio which offers a luxurious setting with cutting-edge facilities at your fingertips, including full motion capture stage. You’ll also receive complimentary catered lunch from our on-site pub, The Bird or Worm?
You will be part of an inclusive group of ninjas who know what it takes to succeed, and who will encourage and support you to do the same.
Our Process: We are an equal opportunity employer. Equality, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) is a crucial and permanent part of our business strategy. To help us ensure a fully equal, diverse, and inclusive working environment, we carry out anonymised screening. Our anonymised screening automatically obscures your personal information from your application and encourages a more inclusive hiring process by mitigating unconscious bias from the start.
Where possible, we kindly ask that you submit anonymised reels/portfolios to support our ED&I commitments.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a BAFTA Award winning studio in the Xbox Game Studios Group and be part of pushing the boundaries of interactive entertainment.
Please note, this advert closes on Wednesday 22nd June.
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