Senior Technical Animator

People Can Fly Studio; Canada; Remote; CAD 107,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

People Can Fly Studio is seeking a Senior Technical Animator to enhance their projects by maintaining production pipelines, creating character rigging, and collaborating with teams to ensure quality. The role demands expertise in software like Maya, attention to detail in physics simulation, and strong technical skills for successful project execution.

Benefits

100% paid benefit package

4% RRSP matching

20 paid vacation days

5 paid sick days

Free virtual health sessions

Personal development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of anatomy and character movement.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine art production pipelines.
• Knowledge of facial rigs for games.

Responsibilities

• Maintain production and software pipeline.
• Create high-quality character and creature rigging.
• Implement characters in Unreal Engine.

Skills

Maya

Rigging

Skinning

Communication

Python

Physics Simulation

Education

Typically 5+ years experience

Production cycle involvement for at least 1 title

Job description

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• Maintain the production and software pipeline and meet deadlines.
• Creating high quality characters, creatures and props rigging and skinning suitable technically to project the desired universe.
• Autonomously implementing characters in Unreal Engine including cloth, physics and blueprint setups.
• Work closely with modelers and animators to ensure a smooth development pipeline that delivers high quality assets.
• Contributes to pipeline tools and working with engine and project leads on continuous improvement of those engine tools.
• Ability to provide clean and optimized assets or code within established systems and requirements.
• Autonomously work on pipeline tools and working with engine and project leads and propose continuous improvement of those engine tools including pushing forward on R&D case studies.
• Occasionally support Lead in recruitment projects with HR collaboration.
• Occasionally support new hires onboarding process.

Qualifications:

• Typically 5+ years, Involved in the production cycle of at least 1 title
• Strong understanding of department dependencies and needed areas of collaboration throughout the project.
• Great experience with Maya, specializing in rigging/skinning.
• Strong understanding of anatomy and character movement with close attention to physical deformation.
• Knowledge of facial rigs for games, television or film.
• Strong physics simulation on cloth, hair and other physics items.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly provide technical feedback into the tasks, rigs, toolsets and documentation.
• Good programming skills, ability to write Python code.
• Familiarity with Unreal engine art production pipelines including notably character/animation related features.
• Self-motivation.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

Nice to have:

• Modeling and animation experience
• Familiarity with other tools like Houdini and blender is a plus

What we offer:

• Benefit package 100% paid by PCF. The insurance company reimburses 100% of claims (Up to $1000 per service a year, as well as individual family coverage).
• 4% RRSP matching before tax deductions, 100% vested on day 1.
• Paid week off during Winter Holidays.
• 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days.
• Free virtual health and mental well-being sessions are included in the plan for members and their dependents
• Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment.
• Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Art/Creative, Design, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer Games

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