Sphere Entertainment: Senior Technical Animator / Rigger Project Based

Animator is needed in Burbank, United States.

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Client: Sphere Entertainment

Location: Burbank, United States

Contract: Part Time

What will you do?

• Working closely with leadership in creative development, production, post-production, and playback,

• The Senior Technical Animator/Rigger is responsible for applying design thinking to solving Sphere specific content challenges.

• Remain up to date with trends in art, animation, design, and technology.

• Work with a collaborative team to solve complex challenges and contribute to the team’s best practices and workflows development.

• Work with Motion Graphics Supervisor to address notes from client or creative team to finalize shots.

• Responsible for creating and developing procedural and technical animations for projects.

• Contribute to animating props and assets in shots for a various range of styles.

• Responsible for animation aspects of projects and technical tasks such as rigging, skinning, and asset implementation to other 3D programs.

• Responsible for developing and maintaining rigs throughout production and troubleshooting need for artists.

• Create scripts and tools to automate rigging workflow or enhance existing tools.

• Collaborate with digital artists and Motion Graphics Supervisor to design intuitive rigs and interfaces for production.

• Responsible for managing, maintenance and delivery of rigs and scripts during production.

• Responsible for ongoing technical development and integration for animation and rigging in production pipeline.

• Manage and optimize animations and rigs for best playback performance.

• Provide documentation of tools and techniques for departmental reference.

• Mentor and train junior level artists to improve skill set and quality.

• Work closely with Motion Graphics Supervisor to research and develop best practices to improve workflow.

• Responsible for creating rigging systems and interfaces for complex characters and props.

• Assist Motion Graphics Supervisor in developing workflows and animation pipeline.

• Assist Motion Graphics Supervisor in recruiting and training a world-class team.

• Collaborate with other supervisors and departments for knowledge sharing, project assessment and production.

• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed by Motion Graphics Supervisor.

What do you need to succeed?

• Must have demo reel/portfolio demonstrating variety of rigging and animation work.

• Proficiency equivalent to 10+ years of experience working as a rigging and animation artist.

• Experience working as a rigger or animator in high-end VFX pipelines for commercials, Games, VR, Film, Games, TV, or theme parks a plus.

• Previous work experience in VR or spherical projects desired.

• Expert knowledge of rigging/skinning for Maya, Cinema 4D or equivalent CG application.

• Understanding of principles of animation.

• Knowledge of python scripting and ability to write custom scripts for animation softwares.

• Experience in rigging and binding complex assets.

• Experience in character animation and motion capture a plus.

• Experience in creating rigs for creatures, characters, facial rigs, and props.

• Expert knowledge in C4D, Maya and Adobe Creative Suite expertise required, with adaptability across other potential software such as Blender, Nuke, and other 2D or 3D digital content creation tools.

• Expert knowledge color, light and compositing for look development.

• Knowledge or rendering engines such as Redshift, V-ray, and others.

• Exceptional attention for lighting design.

• Positive attitude and proven track record in creative problem solving with expressed interest in new technology and processes.

• Software agnosticism a plus; adaptability to new pipelines and utilization of provided tools is critical.