Technical Artist: Rigging/Skinning for a Fighting Game
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Hi, we're the Fantasy Strike team at Sirlin Games. Fantasy Strike is a fighting game by an ex-Street Fighter dev that's a lot easier to get into and learn than other games in the genre, so that we can bring the joys of fighting games to a wider audience.
LOCATION
Our team works remotely from all over the world. Working from home and setting your own hours offers a ton of flexibility, but it also requires that our team members to be disciplined self-starters.
TERMS
This is a full-time position.
We're an indie company, so set your salary expectations (and your passion!) accordingly.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a Maya technical artist to set up character rigs, do skinning on characters and alternate costumes, and to create/improve tools for our production workflow. The most immediate work is setting up facial rigs on our existing characters, and setting up skinning for a lot of alternate costumes. Later on, we’ll need new body and face rigs for both human and non-human characters. You’ll work with our character modeling outsource as well as internal animators to ensure that there are no technical problems.
REQUIREMENTS
www.fantasystrike.com
LOCATION
Our team works remotely from all over the world. Working from home and setting your own hours offers a ton of flexibility, but it also requires that our team members to be disciplined self-starters.
TERMS
This is a full-time position.
We're an indie company, so set your salary expectations (and your passion!) accordingly.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a Maya technical artist to set up character rigs, do skinning on characters and alternate costumes, and to create/improve tools for our production workflow. The most immediate work is setting up facial rigs on our existing characters, and setting up skinning for a lot of alternate costumes. Later on, we’ll need new body and face rigs for both human and non-human characters. You’ll work with our character modeling outsource as well as internal animators to ensure that there are no technical problems.
REQUIREMENTS
- Strong skill in skinning and rigging in Maya.
- Understanding of human body and facial anatomy.
- High level skill in skinning / painting weights.
- Able to recognize proper mesh topology as well as repair and/or give feedback to the 3D modelers, especially on facial meshes.
- At least some modeling ability, at least enough to adjust a model’s proportions and limbs sizes.
- We require character meshes exported to FBX, and the FBX must have meshes combined (e.g. body/clothes/hair all as one mesh), as per our detailed instructions.
- Expert in Maya.
- Good written communication skills, fluent in English (you'll have to communicate with our outsourced character modelers).
- Scripting experience with MEL, Python, C#, C++ or others.
- Experience with standard industry tools like Photoshop, Motion Builder (though we don’t currently use it).
www.fantasystrike.com