Senior Rigging Technical Director

3 weeks ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Framestore Full time
Job Title: Senior Rigging Technical Director

Framestore is seeking a highly skilled Senior Rigging Technical Director to join our team. As a key member of our rigging department, you will be responsible for designing, creating, and maintaining highly accurate and efficient rigs for high-end visual effects films.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Create fully scripted rigs and refine them according to animation and lighting needs
  • Prototype, implement, and refine puppet (skeleton), cloth (deformer-based), or mechanical rigs
  • Troubleshoot and fix rig issues, collect artistic feedback, and fine-tune rig behavior
  • Become a proficient user and contributor of the extensive rigging tool-set
  • Create simple tools to help animation workflow and rig interaction
  • Work within the pipeline and rigging standards
  • Meet delivery deadlines under production constraints
Desirable Skills:
  • Facial anatomy, realistic eye and mouth rigs, and Facs breakdown
  • Life drawing or organic modeling, especially human anatomy
  • Basic knowledge of dynamics (Maya Hair, Comet, nCloth, nParticle, etc.)
  • Strong math background, especially matrix math and geometry algorithms
  • C or C++ programming Maya plugins
  • Experience with body motion capture: rig hookups, offset rigs, re-targeting, etc.
Essential Skills:
  • 5 years of VFX production experience
  • Maya rigging (full body/facial)
  • A passion for creating believable CG characters and the requisite attention to detail
  • Advanced Python or Mel, GUI scripting, and the ability to follow strict coding standards
  • Experience with full scripted modular/functional rigging
  • Analytical and artistic skills, creativity, and visual problem-solving
  • Team work, communication, and time management skills
  • The ability to write technical documentation and present your work (wiki, screen cap, etc.)
  • Basic knowledge of anatomy for bipeds and quadrupeds, skeletons, and muscles
  • A good understanding of constraints and deformers, how they work, and their limitations

Framestore is proud to employ extraordinary talent across all genders, races, nationalities, religions, ages, abilities, and sexual preferences. We aim to encourage and support all of our current and future employees to achieve their potential. No job applicant will receive less favorable treatment on any basis when applying for a career with us.

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