Animator

Talk Recruitment; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation allowance / assistance

Private health cover

Gym / health club memberships

Life assurance / critical illness &amp

Digital allowance

Team lunches and events

Job summary

Talk Recruitment is seeking a Technical Animator for a Warwickshire-based gaming developer. You will streamline animation tools and workflows to deliver high-quality character and prop animations.

Work with art and programming teams to overcome technical challenges, implement animation pipelines, and help build tools for future features in UE4. A strong showreel and knowledge of skinning, rigging, and anatomy are required.

Qualifications

• Professional experience of animation and technical animation for games.
• Proficient in Maya and related animation tools.
• Experience with skinning and rigging.
• Ability to develop tools and pipelines for animations.

Responsibilities

• Assist the animation team, streamline and optimise processes.
• Collaborate with art and programming to overcome technical challenges and build tools.
• Help implement quality in-game character and prop animations.
• Assist with skinning, rigging and pipelines for animation tasks.
• Build tools for future animation challenges in a user-generated content environment.

Skills

Technical animation

Character animation

Outsourcing experience

Animation pipelines

Anatomy knowledge

Tools

Maya

UE4 blueprints

Animation graphs

Job description

Technical Animator – Computer Games / Video Games - Warwickshire

Fantastic opportunity for an Animator to join and progress with an Award Winning and fast-growing Gaming Developer.

LOCATION: Warwickshire

Based in Leamington Spa, known as one of the UK’s biggest Gaming hub locations.

Not only is this location the hot spot for a career in gaming, it is also a nice place to live.

What makes it GREAT?

• Company has very low staff turnover, Excellent sign that they look after their staff.
• Recent Award for “Best Places to Work 2019”
• Unique projects, shaping the future of gaming.
• A highly successful and profitable business, a stable employer where you can progress your career for the long term.
• Exciting time to join their business as they look to unveil a new landmark project this summer.
• Fantastic company culture, big enough to keep you busy, but small enough to know your name, excellent option if you are fed up with being treated like just another number.
• Top company benefits and great working environment.
• Flexible working hours.
• Ethical business with strong values
• A reputation for promoting good work life balance and also a good social environment, with plenty of lunchtime social activities organised by staff, including board games, a table tennis league and a running club.

COMPANY:

Based in Warwickshire my client is a fast-growing gaming developer working on exciting projects with a long-term pipeline of work to fuel further growth of the business and your career.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Seeking a Technical Animator who is after an exciting new creative challenge.

• To assist the animation team, streamline and optimise current processes.
• Work collaboratively with the art & programmer disciplines to overcome technical challenges and build animation tool sets.
• To help the animation team implement quality in-game character and prop animations.
• To assist with skinning, rigging and streamline the relevant pipelines of those tasks.
• Help to build tools for future challenges with animations in a UGC environment.
• Work alongside the Art Director and Principal Animator to create and use processes that maintain the animation art style.
• Build strong collaborative working relationships with all members of the team and studio, regardless of discipline or seniority.
• Understand the audience and core goals and game ethos.

REQUIREMENTS:

To be considered for this Animator role you must meet the following criteria:

• Professional experience of animation and technical animation for games.
• Proficient in the use of job relevant software e.g. Maya.
• Experience with skinning & rigging.
• Ability to utilise and develop appropriate tools and pipelines to implement, review and iterate animations.
• A strong showreel of animation work and/or technical skills
• An understanding of UE4 blueprints, scripting, animation graphs or similar animation networks.
• Strong knowledge of anatomy and best practices for character topology.
• Exhibit a strong grasp of the principles of animating the human figure.
• Experience in working with outsourcers (Desireable)
• Facial animation experience. (Desireable)
• Familiarity with optimisation of animation (e.g. UE4 Blueprint Fast Path evaluation) (Desireable)

REMUNERATION:

The successful Animator will receive:

• Competitive Basic Salary
• Flexible Working Hours
• Relocation Allowance / Assistance
• Paid Overtime
• Private Health Cover
• Gym / Health Club Memberships
• Life Assurance Scheme / Critical Illness & Income Protection
• Digital Allowance
• Office Kitchen fully stocked with snacks and treats.
• Regular team lunches, company funded trips and events.