Senior Technical Animator (Assassin's Creed)

We are looking for a Senior Technical Animator to join our team in Chengdu, China. As a Senior Technical Animator, you will be responsible for understanding character workflow and tools, and ensuring that the Animation and Art team are creating high-quality content with the tools and assets provided.

Responsibilities:

• Integration of character assets and cinematics into the game engine
• Design, create and test character rigs
• Research and share knowledge of existing engines and animation packages within the industry
• Interact and collaborate with different teams (the art team, designers and programmers) to fulfill tasks according to production plan
• Design, create and test character rigs
• Maintain and test animation tools and pipelines
• Apply and maintain consistency for exported characters, props, and animations throughout the entire project
• Develop progressive techniques and process to solve character and animation challenges
• Proactive in problem identification and creating solutions
• Interact and collaborate with the different departments (Art, Programming, Production, etc.)

Qualifications:

• Solid technical animation experience in multiple shipped titles
• Expertise in rigging and skinning assets
• Good understanding of animation principles and anatomy
• Experience with Motion capture and data transfer
• Ability to understand technical implementations and limitations
• Proficient with standard industry tools like Motion Builder, 3ds Max, Photoshop
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Demonstrates the independency, efficiency and commitment to projects/tasks - A good team player with strong cross-group communication skills
• Good learning ability, looking for improvements consistently
• A gamer with the passion and confidence of creating top-quality games
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written or having the willingness to learn and improve
• Plus: Experience in MEL, Python, C# or C++ is a Plus