Full-Time

On-Site

Senior Technical Animator (R27076)

EEpic Games, Inc.Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul0

Description

The Senior Technical Animator will join Epic Games' Cinematics team, focusing on creating expressive character movement for high-profile trailers, including those for Fortnite and other IP projects. This role emphasizes rigging, pipeline development, and tooling, requiring collaboration with internal teams and external vendors to enhance character models, movements, and overall development workflows. The animator will be instrumental in seeking solutions, making positive changes to assets and tools, and improving existing processes.

What We're Looking For

Rig characters, props, and vehicles.

Set up assets in Unreal Engine 5, including cloth, physics, and blueprints.

Work closely with modelers and animators to ensure a smooth development pipeline and workflow that delivers high-quality assets.

Assist and build pipeline tools and collaborate with engine and project leads on continuous improvement of those engine tools.

Direct Technical Animation work for Cinematic trailers, including outsourced and internal trailers.

Provide support and optimization for the Animation Team, covering performance/speed optimizations, engine stability, control rig/constraint bug issues, and animation workflows.

Design UI Pickers for the Animation team.

Ideal Candidate

Extensive experience rigging characters in the Unreal Engine.

A portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters, bipeds, and creatures, both body and faces.

Attention to aesthetic detail, especially with regards to character deformation and physics movement.

Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline.

Positive individual with strong written communication and teamwork skills.

Exceptional problem-solver.

Experience developing character pipelines and tools.

Hard Skills

Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine 5

Character Rigging

Prop Rigging

Vehicle Rigging

Cloth Simulation

Physics Simulation

Blueprints

Pipeline Tools

UI Pickers

Animation Optimization

Soft Skills

Teamwork

Written Communication

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Aesthetic Detail

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Daily Meal Vouchers

Commuter Benefits (for onsite employees)

About the Company

Epic Games, Inc.

Epic Games is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company is best known for developing the Unreal Engine, the globally popular game Fortnite, and operating the Epic Games Store digital storefront.

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