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Senior Rigger / Technical Artist

Location: Work from home or from our brand-new studio in Cambridge, UK.

Level: Senior 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 with a variety of photo-real humanoids and creatures, developing puppet, deformation and runtime rigs including facial, clothing, fur/hair muscle and skin simulations. You will also work with key external partners to ensure we stay at the cutting edge of game development.

Requirements

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 ability to leverage both existing and emerging technologies in the pursuit of this.

You will have:

• Demonstrable ability to author powerful and efficient puppet rigs.

• An in-depth knowledge of anatomy.
• In depth knowledge of Maya.
• Good Python skills, with the ability to write clear, well-structured, and documented code.
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to lead discussions and mentor others.
• Be able to work both independently and as part of a team.

Your experience: As well as the above skills you will also have:

• Unreal Engine experience.
• 3+ years industry experience Game/Film/TV.

As a bonus you may also have:

• Experience in writing C++ Maya Plug-ins.

• Good understanding of Linear Algebra.
• Performance capture pipelines and assets.

Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity.

We offer great pay, wide-ranging benefits and flexible working arrangements so you can focus on what matters. For those based in the studio, we offer complimentary catered lunch from our on-site pub, The Bird or Worm? We avoid hierarchy, egos and crunch, preferring trust, talent and experience to see us through. 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 16th February 2022.