Rigging artist

• Liaising with concept artists and animators about the physical attributes and movements of characters.
• Drawing character sketches showing key movements.
• Articulating characters within environments, layouts and backgrounds.
• Creating joints and moving points to rotate and pivot. 
  Designing, testing and maintaining character set ups.
• Ensuring character movements are fluid, free of glitches and believable.
• Writing MEL scripts to customize software to specific animation requirements.
• Developing tools and plug-ins to optimize animation.
• Testing rigs and ensuring they hold up in animation.

Requirements

• Solid knowledge of human and animal anatomy.
• Skills in facial animation preferably.
• Strong mastering of MAYA rigging tools especially for the creation of joints and skeletons, skinning and weighting, IK configuration, blend shapes and deformers, nodes dependency.
• Ability to articulate emotion through character facial and physical expression. 
  Ability to create character gait, walk and body language.
• Highly organized, ability to work methodically.