Senior Technical Animator/Rigger - Armature

Senior Technical Animator/Rigger - Armature Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Art, Animation, Engineering and Design teams to ensure high-quality character and animation assets are delivered on time and within technical/performance specifications in Unreal
• Work with a multidisciplinary team to prototype and establish tools and pipeline solutions for character development. These established practices and tools will be used by internal and external teams
• Collaborate with external partners, participating in the maintaining and expanding of character rigs and tools
• Rig and skin characters and props using a variety of tools and plugins (custom in house suite, Maya, NG Skin Tools etc)
• Creation and management of corrective blendshapes and support of their in game implementation
• Work with Character Artists and Engineers to support facial animation pipeline
• Setup and management of dynamic character cloth and RBAN systems in Maya/UE5
• Create and implement animation systems in UE5 using animation blend trees and montages
• Research and development of the latest tools, rigging techniques and workflows

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years industry experience as a Technical Animator
• Experience with Blendshape/Facial Animation Pipelines from Maya to Unreal - creation/management/implementation
• A portfolio that demonstrates a variety of character skinning and rigging setups in a range of styles from stylized to realistic - examples should include facial and full body setups - including driven blendshapes
• Proficiency working in both Maya and Unreal Engine 5
• Experience with dynamic character cloth and RBAN systems in Maya/UE5
• Experience with animation state machines, blend trees, and montages
• Proficiency scripting in both MEL and Python
• Shipped at least one AAA title as a Sr. Technical Animator or like titled position
• Proven communication and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with outsourcing teams on a large scale project
• Previous experience building or contributing to a facial animation pipeline utilizing the combination of blend shapes and joints
• Experience authoring Unreal Control Rigs and Full Body IK
• Experience working with motion capture and hand-keyed animation

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