Senior Technical Animator New IP

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work directly with Animators, Designers, Modelers, and Programmers to deliver excellent character movements, facial animations, mechanics, and cutscenes. 

• Work with Programmers to improve toolkit, systems, establish rigging standards. 

• Create rigs and skinning for animated organic and mechanical objects. 

• Proactively come up with ideas on how to improve animation pipeline. 

• Troubleshoot complex problems as they arise and construct solutions to unforeseen design problems in a timely manner. 

• Instructing colleagues and documenting necessary information.

REQUIREMENTS

• Expert-level proficiency in Maya (rigging, skinning, scripting, animation tools).

• Strong experience building and maintaining custom rigs for humanoid, creature, mechanical, and facial animation.

• Solid experience with game engines such as Unreal, Unity, etc.

• Build and maintain creature locomotion systems, including custom movement logic, animation cycles, and dynamic state machines tailored for quadrupeds, flying or hybrid entities.

• 5+ years of experience in rigging in AAA quality. 

• Good communicator with strong verbal and written English skills.  

• Excellent problem-solving and time management skills. 

• Self-direction and motivation. 

• Proactive attitude. 

• Desire to help drive the improvement of the game engine year-over-year. 

• Ability to work under strict schedule and time pressure.

Preferences

• Experience working with procedural/physically-altered animation techniques. 

• Experience with facial animation. 

• Understanding of real-world kinematics and ability to replicate physical movement using a mix of simulation tools and baked skeletal animations. 

• One shipped AAA title on consoles. 

• Experience in working with animation blueprints 

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