United States onlyAs a Technical Animator, you will work alongside and support the Animation Team creating character, vehicle, weapon rigs and tools needed to support a creative and efficient production pipeline.
Requirements
- Creating/debugging character/prop rigs for various projects.
- Character skinning or skinning direction.
- Coordinating with character artists and animators, taking feedback on rigs and identifying areas to improve the creation of animation content.
- Collaborating with technical team for scripting/plugin help when needed.
- Character/animation project planning; identifying rigging requirements and how they will affect modelling/animation.
- Staying up to date on latest rigging/animation methods/workflow, and animator efficiency.
- Helping develop and maintain character facial rigs to support facial animation pipelines.
- Participating in and supervising integration of the animation assets into the game engine.
Required Skills
- Must be proficient in Maya & Max.
- IK/FK blending, spline controls, expressions, animator-friendly control setups.
- Facial Rigging (Joint based & blendshapes.
- Animation clip & pose library creation/sharing.
- Passion for animation, organized, team player.
- Excellent in communication and resourcefulness in problem solving.
Additional Preferred Skills
- Proficient in Blender.
- Experience with MotionBuilder
- Houdini KineFX.
- Animation experience.
- English (Written and/or spoken)。
- Game engine (Unreal, Unity, etc) experience.（Unreal、Unity)
Benefits
Role Information: EN
Studio: Keywords Studios
Location: North America
Area of Work: Art Services
Service: Create
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Working Pattern: In-Office
- Competitive salary and benefit package
- A portfolio of diverse projects in which you will be involved based on your skill set and desire for professional growth
- Working on AAA titles and in collaboration with the biggest names in the industry
- Opportunity to work and hang out with a team of dedicated and fun-loving people
- Being part of the Keywords Studios Group, the one-stop creative agency for the game-dev industry, there is a plethora of professional opportunities within the group.
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