About the role
Position Details
- Role: Riggers
- Production: Unannounced Book-Based Animated Series
- Format: Short-form digital animated series
- Position Type: Contract
- Work Arrangement: On-Site, Kingston (preferred)
- Production Status: Currently in production
About the Role
We are seeking experienced Riggers to join our production team for a short-form anime-inspired digital series. The Riggers will work closely with the animation, character design, and production teams to create efficient, animator-friendly character rigs that support the visual style, performance requirements and production schedule of the series. This role is ideal for someone with strong technical skills, a solid understanding of character movement and deformation, and experience working within a fast-paced animation pipeline. We are looking for someone who combines strong technical rigging ability with an understanding that the ultimate purpose of a rig is to give animators the flexibility to create appealing, expressive and entertaining performances.
What You'll Do
- Build, test and maintain high-quality character rigs for use throughout production.
- Create intuitive, efficient and animator-friendly controls that allow for a wide range of expressive character performances.
- Develop body, facial and secondary-motion rigging systems appropriate to the characters and animation style.
- Ensure rigs deform cleanly and consistently across a broad range of poses and movements.
- Work closely with modellers and character artists to identify and resolve topology, deformation and technical issues.
- Collaborate directly with animators to understand performance requirements and make adjustments or improvements to rigs as required.
- Troubleshoot rigging and animation-related technical issues throughout production.
- Optimize rigs to support an efficient production pipeline, particularly for short-form content with demanding schedules.
- Maintain consistency in rigging standards, naming conventions and technical specifications across characters and assets.
- Assist in developing or improving rigging tools, templates and workflows where appropriate.
- Work with supervisors and production management to meet established milestones and delivery schedules.
What We're Looking For
- Professional experience as a Character Rigger or Technical Animator in animation, VFX, games or a related field.
- Strong character rigging portfolio or demo reel demonstrating both technical ability and an understanding of character performance.
- Excellent understanding of anatomy, movement, weight, balance, deformation and character mechanics.
- Experience developing facial rigs and expressive character controls.
- Strong understanding of skinning, weighting, joint placement and deformation techniques.
- Experience troubleshooting complex rigging and animation issues.
- Ability to build rigs that are technically sophisticated while remaining straightforward and intuitive for animators.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly when working between artistic and technical departments.
- Highly organized and comfortable working within established production schedules and pipelines.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks and respond quickly to production needs.
Other Details
All interested applicants must include a portfolio of their relevant work in their application materials. The initial contract is for a short-form digital animated series. There may be an opportunity for successful team members to continue onto the planned long-form series based on the same property, depending on production requirements, performance and availability. It is preferred that this position is primarily based on-site at our studio in Kingston, Ontario. Applicants should be based in Kingston or the surrounding area, or be able to work primarily on-site in Kingston. Remote applicants will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
Application Details
Apply by email at info@limestonecreativeinc.com. Please write the position title in the email subject line for consideration. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.