Full-Time

On-Site

Senior Technical Designer in Animation

Description

This role focuses on designing and creating gameplay animation systems for high-quality character motion, serving as the primary contact for animation implementation issues and technical challenges. It involves collaboration with Animation, Design, and Programming teams to ensure efficient animation pipelines, identify problems, and deploy solutions to facilitate communication between departments.

What We're Looking For

Create animation behavior tools, techniques, and philosophies to build complex movement systems.

Design and implement animation state machines, behaviors, and runtime solutions.

Work closely with Animation, Design, and Programming departments to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve in-game animation implementation issues and technical challenges.

Collaborate with animation leadership to maintain the style and quality standards for animations.

Identify potential issues and deploy correct solutions, bridging communication between the animation team and other departments.

Ideal Candidate

Strong animation sense with a clear understanding of realistic and stylized character motion and how to achieve them with modern animation methods.

Expertise with animation pipelines, including source content creation tools such as Maya, MotionBuilder, and the Unreal Engine, utilizing the Control Rig toolset.

Familiarity with gameplay animation tools and concepts like blend trees and state machines; experience with Unreal Engine Animation Blueprints is a plus.

Hard Skills

Animation

Animation Pipelines

Maya

MotionBuilder

Unreal Engine

Control Rig

State Machines

Blend Trees

Unreal Engine Animation Blueprints

Soft Skills

Problem-solving

Written communication

Teamwork

Self-motivation

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision HRA

Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401k with competitive match

robust mental well-being program (therapy and coaching)

company-wide paid breaks

unlimited PTO and sick time

paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment.

Special Commitments

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (excluding CA, NY, MA & WA). [cite:4 (from previous search)]

Also Available At

Epic Games, Inc. - Vancouver

Vancouver, British Columbia

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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