# Technical Artist (Rigging)

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Artist (Rigging) to join our EA SPORTS Technology team at Electronic Arts in Vancouver. As a Technical Artist, you will work under the direction of a Rigging Lead to ensure deliverables are achieved at quality and on time.

Responsibilities:

- Create skeletons, skin characters and objects, control rigging, cloth/hair simulation, asset maintenance, and script development

- Assume ownership of content and resolve technical or quality issues with assets

Qualifications:

- At least 3 years of cinematic or games production experience

- Background in rigging and skinning complex assets

- Effective communication skills with artists, engineers, and managers

- Experience scripting/programming in Python, knowledge of C++ a bonus

- Expertise with Autodesk Maya

- Knowledge of human anatomy and animation principles

Great to Have:

- Understanding of game engines

- Character simulation experience

- Experience with 3D mathematics

- Experience with Houdini/procedural node graph systems

- Familiarity with motion capture

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits package including physical, emotional, financial, professional, and social wellbeing

- Paid and family leaves, free games, and more

## Skills

### Required
- Autodesk Maya
- Python
- C++
- rigging
- skinning
- animation principles
- human anatomy

### Nice to have
- game engines
- character simulation
- 3D mathematics
- Houdini
- motion capture

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