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Senior Character Rigger

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

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 Rigging department you will collaborate with Character Art and Animation teams to create exceptional quality character rigs that will help bring our creative vision to life. You will work with a variety of photo-real humanoids and creatures, developing puppet and deformation rigs including clothing, fur/hair muscle and skin, implementing assets in Unreal Engine ensuring they are both high quality and performant.

Requirements

Your skill: You will have a strong desire to push real-time characters beyond commonly accepted standards, able to leverage both existing and new/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
• Thorough understanding of biomechanics and kinesiology for humanoids/animals and the ability to translate this into highly realistic character rigs.
• Excellent knowledge of Maya
• Good Python skills, with the ability to write clear, well-structured, and documented code.

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

• A thorough understanding of current rigging and animation pipelines
• Production experience with realistic characters in film or AAA game-development.

As a bonus you may also have:

• Unreal Engine experience
• Ability to prototype custom deformers
• Experience with skinning decomposition

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. 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.

Please note: This advert closes on Sunday 14th March 2021.