Senior Technical Animator
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Senior Technical Animator at Camouflaj Game Studio, you will be working closely with animators, artists, designers, engineers, and producers to develop and maintain high-performance real-time animations and characters within Maya and Unity. Your responsibilities will include creating character rigs, integrating assets into Unity, and developing tools and pipelines to streamline the workflows of animators and character artists. You will also be guiding animation and character art teams on best practices, ensuring designs work with animations, collaborating on animation features and planning. You will also mentor other technical animators, and stay updated with the latest trends in animation and rigging technology.
Must have:
- 5+ years of experience as Technical Animator.
- Experience with maintaining existing codebase of tools.
- Create tools for Maya and Motion Builder with Python.
- Proficient with creating body & face rigs in Maya.
- Experience in model topology and best practices.
- Experience with animation controllers.
- Experience in Unity and using C#.
Good to have:
- Experience in VR development.
- Experience with Maya C++ API.
- Experience with Motionbuilder.
- Familiarity with FACS based character rigs.
- Familiarity with motion capture workflows.
8 skills required
Job Details
Camouflaj, the award winning team behind BATMAN: ARKHAM SHADOW, IRON MAN VR and RÉPUBLIQUE is looking for an experienced Technical Animator to join our team of seventy talented developers who collectively pursue the goal of creating high quality, meaningful VR games in an open, honest, and respectful environment. As a Technical Animator you’ll work closely with animators, artists, designers, engineers and producers to develop and maintain performant real-time animations and characters within Maya and Unity. You’ll create rigs, integrate assets into Unity, and develop tools and pipelines to facilitate the workflows of animators and character artists. ------- Camouflaj, l’équipe primée derrière BATMAN : Camouflaj Game Studio, l’équipe primée derrière ARKHAM SHADOW, IRON MAN VR et RÉPUBLIQUE, recherche un·e animateur·trice technique expérimenté·e pour rejoindre notre équipe de soixante-dix développeur·euses talentueux·ses qui poursuivent collectivement l’objectif de créer des jeux VR de haute qualité et pertinents dans un environnement ouvert, honnête et respectueux. En tant qu’animateur technique, vous travaillerez en étroite collaboration avec des animateurs, des artistes, des concepteurs, des ingénieurs et des producteurs pour développer et maintenir des animations et des personnages performants en temps réel dans Maya et Unity. Vous créerez des armatures, intégrerez des ressources dans Unity et développerez des outils et des pipelines pour faciliter les flux de travail des animateur·trices et des artistes de personnages.
Senior Technical Animator, Camouflaj Game Studio | Animateur technique senior, Camouflaj Game Studio Responsibilities
- Develop content creation pipelines and tools for the animation and character art teams. | Développer des pipelines et des outils de création de contenu pour les équipes d’animation et de création de personnages.
- Create rigs for characters and props. | Créez des armatures pour les personnages et les accessoires.
- Help integrate assets from Maya to Unity and troubleshoot issues. | Aidez à intégrer les ressources de Maya à Unity et à résoudre les problèmes.
- Guide animation and character art teams on best authoring practices for optimized in-game assets. | Guidez les équipes d’animation et de création de personnages sur les meilleures pratiques de création pour des ressources de jeu optimisées.
- Work with art teams to ensure designs will work with animations. | Travaillez avec les équipes artistiques pour garantir que les conceptions fonctionneront avec les animations.
- Collaborate with designers and gameplay engineers to develop animation features. | Collaborer avec des concepteurs et des ingénieurs de gameplay pour développer des fonctionnalités d’animation.
- Collaborate with producers on planning and scheduling. | Collaborer avec les producteurs sur la planification et la programmation.
- Mentor and train other technical animators on best practices and give code reviews. | Encadrer et former d’autres animateurs techniques sur les meilleures pratiques et donner des revues de code.
- Keep up to date with emerging trends in animation and rigging technology. | Restez au courant des nouvelles tendances en matière de technologie d’animation et de développement d’armatures.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Technical Animator or Technical Artist. | 5+ années d’expérience professionnelle en tant qu’animateur technique ou artiste technique.
- Experience maintaining and further developing an existing codebase of tools. | Expérience dans la maintenance et le développement d’une base de code d’outils existante.
- Experience creating tools for Maya and Motion Builder with Python. | Expérience de création d’outils pour Maya et Motion Builder avec Python.
- Proficient with creating body & face rigs and skinning in Maya using proprietary tools. | Compétent dans la création de rigs de corps et de visage et de skinning dans Maya à l’aide d’outils propriétaires.
- Experience in model topology and directing character artists with best practices. | Expérience en topologie de modèles et en direction d’artistes de personnages avec les meilleures pratiques.
- Experience with animation controllers and state machines using Mecanim or equivalent. | Expérience avec les contrôleurs d’animation et les machines d’état utilisant Mecanim ou équivalent.
- Experience working in Unity and using C# or equivalent. | Expérience de travail dans Unity et utilisation de C# ou équivalent.
- Experience in 3D math skills such as linear algebra and matrix math. | Expérience en mathématiques 3D telles que l’algèbre linéaire et les mathématiques matricielles.
- Experience giving and receiving feedback in a highly collaborative environment. | Expérience à donner et recevoir des retours dans un environnement hautement collaboratif.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in VR development. | Expérience en développement VR.
- Experience with Maya C++ API. | Expérience avec l’API Maya C++.
- Experience with Motionbuilder. | Expérience avec Motionbuilder.
- Familiarity with FACS based character rigs and facial tracking. | Familiarité avec les rigs de personnages basés sur FACS et le suivi facial.
- Familiarity with motion capture workflows. | Familiarité avec les flux de travail de capture de mouvement.
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