Senior Technical Animator – UK Remote, North West UK – AAA Games

This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it is safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

Job Location: Remote, North West UK

Project: AAA Games

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This UK developer is rapidly growing with many high-end games in development across multiple genres including Narrative Adventure and Action Shooter titles. They are a team of professional, friendly developers who form a world class studio staffed with excited, passionate creators who love to collaborate across varied, inspiring, and challenging games.

As a Senior Technical Animator, you will work closely with other animators and tech animators to iterate, evolve, and polish animations to the highest quality possible, on a dark, story-driven next generation ‘Narrative Adventure’ with genre defining goals.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience as a Senior Technical Animator on a t least one project in Games or similar
• Examples of producing high quality rigged and skinned characters
• Experience working with motion capture data from 3rd party providers desirable
• Expert knowledge of animation and the processes involved in creating animations
• Great understanding of Maya and Motion Builder
• Familiarity with implementing animation and animation logic in a game engine

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist the Animation team with planning, knowledge sharing and general technical support
• Produce tools/scripts to aid animators with regards to exporting to game
• Character rigging/skinning including facial set-ups, cloth/hair/physics, and props
• Assist with the implementation of best-in-class character animation
• Work closely with code and animation team to make sure they are working as efficiently and as stress free as possible.
• Assist the Leads and wider team to create and maintain documentation standards and practices for in-game technical animation
• Recognising shortfalls in technical animation skills and assisting with the recruitment process

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Python experience
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine
• Knowledge and understanding of Unreal Engine AnimGraph, Montages, Blendspaces etc
• Experience with Unreal Engine Sequencer
• Console development experience

BENEFITS:

• Relocation Assistance if required
• Full Time remote contract if in the UK already
• Generous holiday allowance
• Mental Health & Wellbeing Support
• Contributory pension scheme
• Performance related Bonus
• Private healthcare plan

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Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call me directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214425!