Technical Animator Montreal (Canada) Epic Games Posted a day ago Animation Intermediate (2–5 years)

Gamecompanies; Montreal; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Technical Animator, where your artistic talent will shine! In this role, you will tackle exciting challenges in rigging and animation, optimizing character implementation in Unreal Engine. Collaborate with world-class artists and contribute to innovative workflows that push the boundaries of game development. This is your chance to be part of a forward-thinking company that values creativity and teamwork, while also offering comprehensive benefits to support your well-being. If you're passionate about animation and eager to grow, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Benefits

100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision

Retirement savings plan with employer match

Mental well-being program

Employee assistance program

Free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents

Qualifications

• Extensive experience rigging characters in Maya or Control Rig.
• A portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters, bipeds, and creatures.

Responsibilities

• Rig characters, creatures, and other assets in Control Rig and Maya.
• Set up assets in Unreal Engine 5, including physics and animation blueprints.

Skills

Rigging in Maya

Control Rig

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Python programming

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Control Rig

Maya

Job description

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

As a Technical Animator for our game, you will play a crucial role in solving creature, character, and asset-related challenges while helping optimize the character implementation pipeline. Some content here will be fully rigged and animated in Unreal Engine. You will help push the tools forward, help develop new workflows, and shape future engine development. Joining this team means you’re motivated to seek solutions to problems and work with other artists to make positive changes to improve character creation in Unreal Engine. The heart of this role is rigging and animation in Epic’s core projects.

In this role, you will

Rig characters, creatures, and other assets in Control Rig as well as Maya

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

Work closely with animators, character artists, asset implementers, and other technical artists to ensure a smooth delivery of high-quality assets

What we're looking for

Extensive experience rigging characters in Maya or Control Rig

A portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters, bipeds, and creatures

Familiarity with the Unreal Engine’s Control Rig

Exceptional problem-solving ability with strong written communication and teamwork skills

Experience with AAA game development, preferably on a large team using an established game engine (internal or commercial), ideally with Unreal Engine

Self-motivation, a strong work ethic, a drive to learn more and improve skills, and the ability to work independently

Python programming experience is a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here .

About the company

We develop cutting-edge games and cross-platform game engine technology!

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, the world’s largest game with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is being adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, and manufacturing for visualization and simulation. Epic has over 2,200 employees across 35 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.