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Technical Animator – Creature Specialist

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💎 Seniority level: Middle, 3+ years

🔍 Industry: Gaming

🏢 Company: Mob Entertainment👥 11-50Video GamesGamingOnline Games

⏳ Experience: 3+ years

Requirements:
  • 3+ years of professional experience as a Technical Animator
  • Expert level knowledge of Animation tooling within Maya, including rigging, skinning, blend shapes, with a strong portfolio showcasing a variety of rigs built from scratch.
  • In-depth understanding of Unreal’s animation pipeline, including Control Rig, Animation Blueprints, Anim Notifies, State Machines, and Animation Montages.
  • Basic programming understanding, including class hierarchies, functions, loops and conditions.
Responsibilities:
  • Rigging in Maya: Design and build medium complexity rigs for creatures and monster characters in Maya.
  • Dynamic Character Features: Develop systems for procedural animations, secondary motion, and physics-driven elements to enhance creature realism and interactivity.
  • Unreal Implementation: Utilize basic Unreal animation features (animation blueprints, animation montages, control rig, blendspaces, anim notifies, ect) to implement either cinematic or real time characters systems.
  • Object Oriented Practices: Ensure good class structures are maintained.
  • Communication: Collaborate with Technical Animation Lead to ensure all projects are built in a unified pipeline, and take feedback from both the design and animation teams to ensure work is meeting technical needs while staying faithful to the character design.
  • Advanced Animation Systems: Understand and imagine how more advanced Unreal systems (motion matching, stride warping, distance matching ect) might be applied.
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