Senior Gameplay Animation Programmer
About the job
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What you'll do
- Work closely with animators, designers and programmers to understand their game animation needs, constraints, and intentions to design adapted solutions to realize the game design and vision.
- Create and iterate on gameplay and animation features for player or AI-driven characters.
- Combine the technical and artistic sides of game design and program the animation system that will make for the best visual representation.
- Analyze existing animation features in our engine, design, develop, and maintain the animation system to properly understand technological limits and what the engine can produce.
- Work in a development environment with shared code and contribute with continuous improvements to our shared tech.
- Depending on the project needs, support development in related areas such as gameplay systems, camera, and AI programming.
Who you are
- You have a good understanding of what makes games fun, have a passion for creating games, and a keen eye for animation.
- You write readable and robust code in C++, and have solid experience in writing performant code.
- Solid knowledge of animation techniques such as state machines, physics ragdolls, masking, layering, inverse kinematics (IK), compression, facial animation, blending, and parameterisation.
- Strong 3D math skills.
- Solid experience in the animation field to understand programming tools and how to improve them.
- A good eye for detail and problem-solving to find even the smallest flaws in the system and optimize them.
- You can interact and collaborate outside of your project and team.
- You use prescribed guidelines to analyze and resolve problems, and you work receiving a moderate level of guidance and direction. Familiarity with game physics, and motion generation/synthesis is a bonus.
About The Company
Avalanche Studios Group is a leading interactive entertainment company, offering a rich portfolio of games from its divisions Avalanche Studios, Expansive Worlds, and Systemic Reaction, including the Just Cause franchise, Rage 2, theHunter: Call of the Wild and Generation Zero.
Avalanche Studios Group is committed to being a truly inclusive and sustainable workplace that creates innovative games through the power of our people’s creativity. All of Avalanche Studios Group games are developed using the proprietary Apex engine, enabling vast open worlds with endless creative possibilities.
Learn more at www.avalanchestudios.com/
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