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Senior Technical Animator

Keywords Studios

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Job Details

Full-time


Full Job Description

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 package
  • A portfolio of diverse projects in which you will be involved based on your skill set and desire for professional growth
  • Working on AAA titles and in collaboration with the biggest names in the industry
  • Opportunity to work and hang out with a team of dedicated and fun-loving people
  • Being 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.

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