3D Rigger

About Us

At Orbital Ignition Interactive, we’re forging Taliara’s Rise—a stylized, dice-driven mobile adventure where factions clash, realms rebuild, and every roll reshapes destiny. Our art direction leans on bold silhouettes, vivid contrast, and whimsy in every polygon. Now, we need a master rigger to breathe motion into our heroes, villains, creatures, and magical relics.

🚨 Heads-up: This role is unpaid until funding closes. If you’re here for the thrill of crafting an IP from the ground up (and to rack up portfolio-defining work), welcome to your new playground.

As our Rigger, you’ll turn static sculpts into dynamic champions of Taliara—ensuring every limb, tail, and tuft of fur moves with intention, personality, and mobile-friendly performance. Your rigs will serve as the backbone for our animators, letting them focus on epic spell casts, dice-rolling flourishes, and cinematic combat stances without wrestling with buggy skeletons.

You’re not just spinning bones—you’re a technical artist, problem-solver, and pipeline architect, unafraid to optimize, iterate, and occasionally rewrite a tool or two so our characters don’t collapse into a T-pose at runtime.

• Constructing skeletons & control rigs for 2D/3D characters, creatures, props, and environmental elements—always balancing “wow factor” with mobile performance.
• Setting up advanced deformation systems (blendshapes, corrective shapes, FK/IK chains, and muscle setups) so our champions bend and flex exactly how we envision.
• Collaborating closely with character artists, animators, VFX specialists, and engineers to ensure rigs translate seamlessly into Unity.
• Developing and maintaining rigging pipelines (Python/MEL scripts or Blender add-ons) that empower the team to iterate rapidly without breaking existing animations.
• Optimizing for mobile: polycount budgets, bone count limits, and light-weight controller setups that keep Taliara’s world running buttery smooth on every device.
• Documenting best practices and style guides for rigging conventions—so every new rig follows a unified standard and no one’s forced to guess, “Why doesn’t Pegasus’s wing fold right?”

• A seasoned rigger with 3+ years of experience in a game-dev or animation studio setting (ideally free-to-play or F2P mobile titles).
• Fluent in Maya, Blender, or similar DCC tools, with a proven track record of building production-ready rigs.
• Strong in mobile constraints: you know how to keep bone counts lean, optimize deformation, and deliver performance at 30+ FPS on mid-range devices.
• Comfortable scripting (Python, MEL, or Blender’s Python API) to automate repetitive tasks, create custom rigging tools, and streamline the pipeline.
• Collaborative and communicative—you can speak “tech” with engineers, “art” with concept creators, and “game” with designers.
• Problem-solving obsessed—when a rig blows up in Unity, you don’t panic. You lean in, debug, and fix it before anyone’s noticed.

• Have built or led a rigging pipeline for a shipped mobile or indie-AAA game.
• Are comfortable setting up Unity’s Humanoid/Generic rigs, Retargeting workflows, or Runtime IK solutions (Final IK, Unity Animation Rigging).
• Understand cloth or hair simulation (even a basic secondary jiggle system).
• Have a soft spot for fantasy aesthetics—from mystical dragons to animated dice avatars.
• Know your way around version control (Perforce/Git) and automated build systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

• Priority consideration for a paid Rigger/Technical Artist role once our funding round closes.
• Creative ownership over characters and rigs in a brand-new IP—your signature on every hero’s walk cycle, cast animation, and victory pose.
• A portfolio-defining credit on a stylized, dice-driven mobile game with global ambitions.
• A nimble, collaborative environment—zero red tape, maximum creative freedom, and the chance to help shape studio-wide rigging standards.