Description
We are seeking a Senior Technical Animator to join our team working on multiple animation systems. As a Senior Technical Animator, you will leverage your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create playability animation systems that enable engaging and high-quality character movements. You will be the primary point of contact for animation implementation and technical animation challenges, working closely with animation, design, and programming teams to ensure smooth and efficient animation processes. You will also contribute to identifying potential issues and deploying appropriate solutions, using your technical expertise to facilitate communication between the animation team and other disciplines.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design tools, techniques, and animation behavior approaches to create complex movement systems
- Design and implement state machines, animation behaviors, and real-time execution solutions
- Collaborate closely with animation, design, and programming teams to analyze, diagnose, and resolve animation implementation issues and technical animation challenges
- Work closely with animation leadership to maintain visual style and quality standards for game animations
- Identify opportunities to improve animation processes and methods, and propose technical animation solutions, including team training and documentation
Requirements:
- Excellent animation sense and deep understanding of realistic and stylized character movements, as well as modern methods for achieving them
- Expertise in animation pipelines, including content creation tools such as Maya, MotionBuilder, and Unreal Engine, with use of the entire Control Rig toolset
- Strong problem-solving skills, excellent written communication skills, and team spirit
- Knowledge of animation playability tools and concepts, such as blend trees and state machines; experience with Unreal Engine animation visualization plans, a plus
- Experience in AAA game development, ideally within a large team using an established game engine (internal or commercial); experience with Unreal Engine, a plus
- Autonomy, strong work ethic, and ability to work independently
- No C++ programming knowledge required