Senior Technical Animator — Remote Canada

Impleo; Canada; Remoto; CAD 90.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Fully remote position in Canada

Comprehensive benefits package

Professional development opportunities

Collaborative, distributed team

Descrizione del lavoro

Impleo, partnering with a Canada-based studio, seeks a Senior Technical Animator to shape animation pipelines, rigs, and skinning for characters, creatures, and props. You’ll collaborate with artists and engineers to ensure assets meet production standards and integrate smoothly into production.

The role emphasizes Maya rigging, Python tooling, and pipeline innovation, with experience across full production cycles on at least two game titles.

Competenze

• At least five years of technical animation experience.
• Experience on full production cycles for at least two game titles.
• Strong Python programming skills and Houdini familiarity.
• Expert Maya rigging and skinning knowledge.
• Solid understanding of anatomy and topology for 3D models.
• Experience with facial rigging for games, film, or TV.
• Clear technical feedback and good documentation practices.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

Mansioni

• Establish and maintain production pipelines and toolsets.
• Create high-quality rigs and skinning for characters, creatures, and props.
• Independently implement Maya rigging including cloth and hair.
• Develop new rigging systems and retargeting tools.
• Collaborate with modelers and animators to optimize workflows.
• Share pipeline tools with engine and project leads to improve capabilities.
• Ensure assets meet technical standards and are production-ready.
• Lead R&D to improve pipelines and workflows; mentor teammates.
• Resolve complex technical issues and support onboarding.

Conoscenze

Maya rigging

Python scripting

Rigging pipelines

Skinning

Technical animation

English communication

Houdini familiarity

Pipeline development

Strumenti

Autodesk Maya

Houdini

Python

Descrizione del lavoro

Impleo, partnering with a Canada-based studio, seeks a Senior Technical Animator to shape animation pipelines, rigs, and skinning for characters, creatures, and props. You’ll collaborate with artists and engineers to ensure assets meet production standards and integrate smoothly into production.

The role emphasizes Maya rigging, Python tooling, and pipeline innovation, with experience across full production cycles on at least two game titles.