Job Description
Lead the render agenda within the animation pipeline, driving innovation in rigging and rendering while collaborating with internal and external partners to deliver high-quality digital assets for The LEGO® Group. We're looking for someone with a passion for 3D modeling and a curiosity about adapting to industry changes, we want you to help shape the future of virtual asset design!
Core Responsibilities
Your main job will be to lead the render agenda connected to the animation pipeline, including taking part in an already established rigging pipeline and contributing to further development across relevant pipelines.
Specify and design optimal solutions for the rendering pipeline while supporting and innovating the animation rigging pipeline, systems, and processes to meet diverse digital demands. Experience in 3D lighting and compositing is essential.
Managing relationships with customers, collaboration with the technical development team, and implementing ways of working and new standards.
You will drive the animation rigging agenda and engage in 3D modeling in Maya, UV unwrap polygon objects, 3D paints, texturing, rigging and taking part of the production pipeline, including implementation and maintenance of relevant 3D tools within the department.
You will collaborate with the Virtual Master Element (VME) format on developing and maintaining the VME format to industry standards and business requirements.
Take the lead on various digital projects across different departments, acting as a key business driver.
Implement and lead initiatives to build capabilities, developing, documenting, and maintaining internal guidelines and workflows for both the department and value stream levels.
Work closely with management to drive and stage relevant initiatives, optimizing agile workflows in collaboration with the task planner and scrum team.
Play your part in our team succeeding
The department of Virtual Asset Design is responsible for delivering 2D, 3D, and animated digital elements and assets. We support The LEGO® Group by modeling, texturing and simplifying assets for LEGO Building Instructions, packaging, marketing, digital games and various other digital media and pipelines. This includes high fidelity rendering as well as games and other experiences. Further, we deliver the rigging needed for animations, box art and marketing!
You will be working closely with a small animation team within the department of VAD responsible for the rigging and render pipeline and describing the needs of tooling to support that team. Further, you will be responsible for a close collaboration with teams internal and external from VAD.
Do you have what it takes?
A handful of years of relevant industry experience and a background in 3D modeling, including box modeling in Maya and knowledge of a range of art production processes
Extensive experience in rigging and rendering, plus basic storytelling
Software experience with: Autodesk Maya. Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Substance 3D Printer, Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe Aftereffects
Experience working with animation pipelines and various digital pipelines
Familiarity with game engines Unreal and Unity is a plus
Knowledge of Marvelous Designer or similar and Game Engine Unreal and Unity
Strong team collaboration and communication skills, being able to effectively engage with external partners while driving and tracking results to foster continuous improvement.
Proficient in game and CGI development methodologies, with a strong ability to adapt to the industry's dynamic changes.
Tool focus and knowledge of basic scripting
Please share in English your CV, motivational letter, and examples of previous similar work. You can upload a portfolio (maximum upload size per file is 2 MB) or share a link clearly highlighted in the CV.
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
What’s in it for you?
Here is what you can expect:
Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.
Just imagine building your dream career.
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What We Do
We are the LEGO Group, the company behind the world’s most loved LEGO® bricks. Our brand name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”.
We’ve been sparking imaginations and inspiring the builders of tomorrow since 1932. This is our mission and what motivates our colleagues around the world every day.
Today, we remain proudly family-owned with headquarters in Billund, Denmark. We have regional hubs in Boston, USA; London, UK; Shanghai, China; and Singapore, as well as 7 manufacturing facilities around the world.
These places are home to 28,000+ colleagues in everything from design and engineering to digital technology and marketing. Together we learn, imagine and build – creating play experiences that are sold in over 130 countries worldwide.
A purposeful and responsible global brand where creativity helps to inspire builders all around the world. Just imagine being part of that!
