Full-Time Senior Technical Animator

What We Need A Senior Technical Animator works closely with animation and engineering teams to push creative vision and technical boundaries for animation. Someone who understands run-time animation, content authoring, creating tools, and pipeline development; who is engaged in designing and improving efficient workflows, while having an eye for quality.

What You Will Do

• Create and maintain various rigs in Maya.
• Implement and set up assets in the game engine.
• Troubleshoot animation issues in Maya and the game engine.
• Create, maintain, and continuously improve tools and pipelines in Maya.
• Optimize assets and systems for run-time performance.
• Refine workflows and content authoring processes with the team.
• Mentor others on tool usage, technical workflows, and best practices.
• Create written or video documentation for information sharing.
• Take an active role in structuring, organizing, and improving animation systems in the editor.

What Will Make You a Great Fit

You are a special someone with a keen artistic eye and love for technical wizardry. You understand the "why" behind how things work and communicate findings effectively. You are motivated to learn, seek new wisdom, and take pride in mentoring others.

• Good understanding of animation principles and their application to video games.
• Knowledge of human anatomy and kinesiology, and how it relates to deformation rigs.
• Experience with game engines (Unreal, Unity, or AAA proprietary).
• Vast experience creating animator-friendly rigs in Maya.
• Tools development experience in Python, PySide2, or PyQt5.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
• Experience driving positive and effective collaborative processes.
• Experience optimizing assets (e.g., LOD, FPS, memory footprint) for game engines.
• Experience with animation, skinning, rigging, and/or pipeline tools in Maya (preferred).
• Experience with FACS-based facial rigs (preferred).
• Maya plug-in authoring experience in C++ (preferred).

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