• 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.