Technical Animation Artist

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

As a Technical Animator for our game, you will play a crucial role in solving creature, character, and asset-related challenges while helping optimize the character implementation pipeline. Some of the content here will be fully rigged and animated in Unreal Engine. You will help push the tools forward, help develop new workflows, and shape future engine development. Joining this team means you’re motivated to seek solutions to problems and work with other artists to make positive changes to improve character creation in Unreal Engine. The heart of this role is rigging and animation in Epic’s core projects.

In this role, you will

• Rig characters, creatures, and other assets in Control Rig as well as Maya
• Set up assets in Unreal Engine 5, including physics and animation blueprints
• Work closely with animators, character artists, asset implementers and other technical artists to ensure a smooth delivery of high quality assets

What we're looking for

• Extensive experience rigging characters in Maya or Control Rig
• A portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters, bipeds, and creatures
• Familiarity with the Unreal Engine’s Control Rig
• Exceptional problem-solving ability with strong written communication and teamwork skills
• Experience with AAA game development, preferably on a large team using an established game engine (internal or commercial), ideally with Unreal Engine
• Self-motivation, a strong work ethic, a drive to learn more and improve skills, and the ability to work independently
• Python programming experience a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.