FuseFX
Sr Rigger TD
Los Angeles, CA, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1405 days ago
PythonC++MayaProblem SolvingTime Management
About the role
- Company Description FuseFX is an award-winning Visual Effects Studio providing visual effects services for episodic television, feature films, commercials, virtual productions, and VR.
- Our flagship studio is in Los Angeles, CA, with locations in New York City, Vancouver, BC., and Atlanta.
- Our Montreal, Toronto, and Bogota studios are serviced by FOLKS VFX, who joined FuseFX in 2020.
Responsibilities
- Create realistic advanced rigs for a variety of characters, creatures, and props inside Maya.
- Perform rig maintenance and fixes during production as requested.
- Maintain a desire to deliver consistently highly quality aesthetic and technical work, while encouraging colleagues to strive for the same standards.
- Able to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment to deliver consistently high-quality work and troubleshoot technical problems on assigned rigging tasks.
- Experience using Python and Mel, C++ API/plugin development, PyQT/PySide, and building scripted rig setups, ideally using a dynamic parts-based interface system and related utilities.
- Experience developing or using tools, custom deformers, PSD systems, tentacle setups, eye bulge and sticky lip deformations, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to rig in a realistic, non-cartoon manner, as well as ability to create squash and stretch setups with dynamics and jiggle.
Nice to have
- 10+ years experience rigging human and creature bipeds, quadrupeds, vehicles, and props using Maya in a production environment.
- Strong background in facial rigging and integration of motion capture data with rigs.
- Production experience with Deformers, Constraints, Hierarchies, Utility Nodes, Expressions, Hair & Cloth, Muscle/Skin, weighting, and dynamics.
- Strong understanding of animation needs in regard to functionality, feature set, evaluation speed, rig controls, and artist interactivity.
- Thorough knowledge of weighting and skinning.
- Knowledge of anatomy and an understanding of bio-mechanics for both humanoids and animals.
- Knowledge of Ziva Dynamics, Maya, and Python is a must
- Strong creative and technical abilities.
Company info
- Company Description
- FuseFX is an award-winning Visual Effects Studio providing visual effects services for episodic television, feature films, commercials, virtual productions, and VR.
- Founded in 2006, the company employs 1200+ personnel across ten studio locations and three brands.
- The Adelaide, Australia studio is serviced by Rising Sun Pictures, who joined FuseFX in 2021.
- Nothing in this job description restricts the Company's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
- The Company will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.
Equal opportunity
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
This listing is sourced directly from FuseFX's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.