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Rigging Artist
Blizzard Entertainment
Irvine, CA, United States
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Rigging Artist - Temp
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an exceptionally skilled Rigging Artist Temp for Diablo. The ideal candidate has experience providing support throughout the character production process, working closely with artists in the character team rigging, and skinning character bodies and faces, and preparing them technically for export.
This person would help members of the rigging team and help maintain a high level of visual and technical quality for all characters. This person should have knowledge and experience with animation tools, scripts, and game engines to facilitate faster production of rigging. Additional skills in secondary areas such as knowledge of animation and character topology are also a plus.
Responsibilities
• Perform rigging work to effectively skin both bodies, and faces on character assets.
• Develop new rigs as needed; active participation in animation tools improvement, and overall quality.
• Work with the team to create balanced solutions to all related technical and aesthetic issues.
• Active communication within, and outside the department.
Requirements
• A demo reel, which demonstrates advanced knowledge in Maya, exceptional skill in rig construction, skinning human, and non-human video game assets for animation, both body and faces
• Positive, solution-oriented individual with a passion for video game development
• Understanding of human body, and facial anatomy, as it relates to game assets and topology
• Excellent understanding of development workflows, as they relate to getting character assets into video game engines
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to work in a self-directed manner, and to make timely, well-thought out decisions
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in video game development
• Strong interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to work closely in a team setting with other departments
Pluses
• Experience in authoring a wide array of tools
Required Application Materials
• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Portfolio Requirements
• Provide a demo reel and demo reel description of you work per shot
• Demo reel should display a firm artistic understanding of light and composition
Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work / life balance. We’ve worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Join us!