Senior Technical Animator job at Keywords Studios. Remote.
As a Technical Animator, you will work alongside and support the Animation Team creating character, vehicle, weapon rigs and tools needed to support a creative and efficient production pipeline.
Requirements
- Creating / debugging character / prop rigs for various projects.
- Character skinning or skinning direction.
- Coordinating with character artists and animators, taking feedback on rigs and identifying areas to improve the creation of animation content.
- Collaborating with technical team for scripting / plugin help when needed.
- Character / animation project planning; identifying rigging requirements and how they will affect modelling / animation.
- Staying up to date on latest rigging / animation methods / workflow, and animator efficiency.
- Helping develop and maintain character facial rigs to support facial animation pipelines.
- Participating in and supervising integration of the animation assets into the game engine.
Required Skills
Must be proficient in Maya & Max.IK / FK blending, spline controls, expressions, animator-friendly control setups.Facial Rigging (Joint based & blendshapes.Animation clip & pose library creation / sharing.Passion for animation, organized, team player.Excellent in communication and resourcefulness in problem solving.Additional Preferred Skills
Proficient in Blender.
Experience with MotionBuilder
Houdini KineFX.
Animation experience.
English (Written and / or spoken)。
Game engine (Unreal, Unity, etc) experience.(Unreal、Unity)
Benefits
Role Information : EN
Studio : Keywords Studios
Location : North America
Area of Work : Art Services
Service : Create
Employment Type : Full Time, Permanent
Working Pattern : In-Office
Competitive salary and benefit packageA portfolio of diverse projects in which you will be involved based on your skill set and desire for professional growthWorking on AAA titles and in collaboration with the biggest names in the industryOpportunity to work and hang out with a team of dedicated and fun-loving peopleBeing part of the Keywords Studios Group , the one-stop creative agency for the game-dev industry, there is a plethora of professional opportunities within the group.#J-18808-Ljbffr