Senior Technical Animator

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.

• 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)

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.