Senior Technical Animator

Keywords Studios is seeking a Senior Technical Animator for a Singapore-based team working on an exciting, new, and unannounced AAA project.

As a Senior Technical Animator, you will focus on implementing and iterating gameplay animation in-engine, working closely with design and engineering to ensure movement and interactive sequences feel responsive, believable, and integrate effectively with the wider gameplay systems.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and iterate on gameplay animation across traversal, combat, and interactive sequences.
• Support traversal systems including climbing, jumping, mantling, and general movement across the environment.
• Work closely with programmers and designers to ensure animation integrates effectively with gameplay systems.
• Create and implement rapid in-game previs for interactive narrative and action sequences.
• Support combat animation for both player characters and NPCs, including hand-to-hand, improvised weapons, throwing, and ranged actions.
• Prototype and iterate quickly to test movement, posing, timing, positioning, and camera requirements.
• Troubleshoot animation-related issues and help identify practical technical solutions.
• Contribute to the overall quality and responsiveness of the gameplay experience.

Requirements:

• Professional experience in Technical Animation, Gameplay Animation, or a closely related role.
• Experience working with Unreal, Unity, or proprietary game engines.
• Strong understanding of real-time gameplay animation and how animation interacts with game systems.
• A good eye for movement, timing, posing, and animation quality.
• Comfortable working closely with programmers, designers, and animators.
• Able to prototype, test, and iterate quickly in-engine.
• Experience contributing to at least one shipped game, ideally at AAA or high-quality production scale.

Nice to have:

• Experience with traversal, combat, or interactive narrative systems.
• Familiarity with technical animation workflows such as animation graphs, state machines, rigging, or procedural animation.
• Experience working with motion capture or gameplay animation pipelines.

Benefits: No benefits information provided.