Senior Technical Animator

Talk Recruitment; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible hours

Relocation assistance

Paid overtime

Private health cover

Gym membership

Life assurance

Digital allowance

Snacks and treats

Team lunches and trips

Job summary

Talk Recruitment is looking for a Senior Technical Animator in Warwickshire to join a fast-growing games developer. Based in Leamington Spa, you will help shape animation quality across a pipeline and work with the art and coding teams on exciting projects.

The role requires strong skinning and rigging skills, Maya proficiency, and a deep understanding of UE4 blueprints/animation graphs to drive innovative tooling and workflows.

Qualifications

• Professional experience of animation and technical animation for games.
• Highly proficient in the use of job relevant software e.g. Maya.
• Very experienced in 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
• A full 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.

Responsibilities

• Assist the animation team, streamline and optimise current processes.
• Collaborate with art & programmer disciplines to build animation tool Sets.
• Help implement high-quality in-game character and prop animations.
• Assist with skinning, rigging and streamline pipelines for those tasks.
• Build tools for future animation challenges in a UGC environment.
• Work with the Art Director and Principal Animator to maintain the animation style.
• Foster strong collaborative relationships across the team and studio.
• Understand the audience and core goals and game ethos.

Skills

Animation for games

Technical animation

Rigging

Anatomy knowledge

Animation pipelines

Showreel

UE4 animation graphs

Tools

Maya

UE4 blueprints

Scripting

Job description

Senior Technical Animator – Computer Games / Video Games - Warwickshire

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

LOCATION:

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 Senior Technical Animator who is after an exciting new creative challenge.

• To assist the animation team, streamline and optimise our 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.
• Highly proficient in the use of job relevant software e.g. Maya.
• Very experienced in 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
• A full 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.

REMUNERATION:

• 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.