Technical Artist Intern - Rigging - League of Legends

As part of the Technical Art, Rigging team, you will create rigs for characters and props. You will oversee tool creation and maintenance for all other art disciplines. Working closely with animation, modeling, and concept teams, you will uncover new ways to improve workflow and ensure functionality, consistency, and quality. As a support, you will be the carry behind the carry, helping hoist up art teams on the strength of your rigs and tools.

Responsibilities:

• Create various game-ready rigs for characters and assets using tools such as Maya
• Troubleshoot problems to help teammates overcome blockers and remove inefficiencies
• Participate in a culture of critique: communicate clear goals and outcomes, give and take constructive feedback, decide on next-steps
• Ensure rigging assets conform to strict technical specifications
• Communicate and collaborate with other discipline experts to ensure your work contributes to an optimal player experience.

Required Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a college, university or non degree program
• Available to work full-time hours for 10-12 weeks remotely in our US based offices
• Authorized to work in the country that you reside in during this remote program.
• Experience with Maya
• Experience in Unreal 4, including Blueprint

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with rigs for characters and creatures of diverse shape and size (bipeds, quadrupeds, etc)
• Ability to demonstrate a rig’s range of motion in expressive, exaggerated, dynamic resonant poses that show good deformation and volume preservation

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot Internships are paid, and interns can also participate in our 401(k) plan. You can expect in-game perks, and the ability to participate in our Play Fund, so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games. The University Programs team also invites you to intern focused events so you can connect with your fellow interns and Rioters to make the most out of your experience.

Applications Close January 6th 12:00pm PT

(Remote Only) The hourly rate for this internship is USD $38.32.

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VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based, tactical shooter.  As a Production Operations Manager on the VALORANT Operations Services Team, you’ll be responsible for helping Riot deliver a consistently maintained, managed and communicated Portfolio of projects and programs essential for VALORANT releases. You will keep the players' experience in mind as you track progress, manage programs, build and maintain Production tracking and communication best practices, and organize priorities and goals. You will work closely with all teams in VALORANT. You will report to the Senior Manager Production Operations, within the Operations organization.

Responsibilities:

• Work on VALORANT level Project Portfolio
• Work and align across multiple teams to lead social, commerce and other game features
• Accountable for the communication program inclusive of Production and Leadership
• Ensure team's work matches overall project priorities and goals
• Plan out and track development milestones and timelines, ensuring any changes are communicated to the stakeholders for cross team visibility

Required Qualifications: 

• Currently enrolled in a computer science, engineering, or related degree program
• Available to work full-time hours for 10-12 weeks remotely in our US based offices
• Authorized to work in the country that you reside in during this remote program.
• Knowledge of the feature development process
• Experience managing complex programs that include processes, Executive level communication and production delivery challenges
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