Technical Artist

2 Months ago • All levels • Technical Art

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Technical Artist, you will bridge the gap between artists and programmers. This role requires strong collaboration skills and prior character rigging experience in animation or video games. Your responsibilities include creating character and creature rigs of varying complexity, sharing work, and ensuring rigs export correctly into the game engine. You will be involved in the project from its inception to completion. This is a contract position with a remote, work-from-home option.
Must have:
  • Create body and facial rigs for characters and creatures.
  • Knowledge of relevant software (Maya, 3DS Max, Unity) required.
  • Rigging/Skin weighting/Blendshape/IK skills are required.
Good to have:
  • At least 1 shipped AAA game title preferred.
  • Retargeting animation experience.
  • A strong portfolio or demo reel.

Job Details

As a Technical Artist, your role will be to act as a bridge between the artists and programmers on the team. We are looking for someone who is an excellent collaborator, with prior character rigging experience in animation or video games. This is a contract position with remote and work from home option.

Responsibilities:

  • Create body and facial rigs of various complexity levels for characters and creatures
  • Openly share work with other developers on the team and seek feedback
  • Recognize proper polygon topology
  • Make sure that rigs can be properly exported into the Game Engine.

Requirements:

  • Knowledge of relevant software packages (Maya, 3DS Max, Unity)required
  • Rigging/Skin weighting/Blendshape/IK skills required
  • At least 1 shipped AAA game title preferred
  • Retargeting animation experience
  • A strong portfolio or demo reel
  • Throrough understanding of rigging and animation
  • Worked on project from inception to completion

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