Gameplay Rigger
FunPlus
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lisbon • 🇵🇹 Portugal
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Design and implement modular rig systems that support procedural generation and variable anatomy (limbs, appendages, proportions, etc.).
- Build and maintain production-ready rigs for humanoid, creature, and hybrid forms, ensuring clean deformation and animator-friendly control setups.
- Develop and maintain rigging tools, scripts, and templates (Python/MEL) to automate repetitive tasks and standardize workflows.
- Collaborate with Technical Art, Animation, and Engineering to ensure seamless Unreal Engine 5 integration, including Control Rig and runtime procedural systems.
- Perform QA passes on internal and outsourced assets—verifying hierarchy, naming conventions, deformation quality, and export compliance.
- Partner with Animation to define standards for deformation, physics-driven motion, and rig-to-engine fidelity.
- Maintain documentation, pipelines, and naming standards for all rigging systems.
- Support real-time debugging, optimization, and integration of complex rigs across multiple disciplines.
Requirements
- 4–6+ years of professional experience in rigging for games, VFX, or animation.
- Fluent in Maya rigging, skinning, and constraint workflows, with a strong understanding of modular hierarchies.
- Proficient in Python or MEL scripting for automation, tool development, and batch processing.
- Experienced integrating rigs into Unreal Engine 5, including Control Rig, retargeting, and deformation workflows.
- Comfortable working with procedural or system-driven creatures —embracing variation and adaptive rig logic.
- Detail-oriented, organized, and methodical—you value efficiency, clarity, and performance.
- A clear communicator who bridges technical and artistic disciplines seamlessly.
- Curious and inventive—you see rigging not as a task, but as an evolving system of motion.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
riggingskinnyconstraint workflowsmodular hierarchiesPython scriptingMEL scriptingUnreal Engine 5Control Rigdeformation workflowsprocedural generation
Soft skills
detail-orientedorganizedmethodicalclear communicatorcuriousinventive