Senior Technical Animator (Cosmetics) | North America | Europe | Fully Remote

Escape Velocity Entertainment; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Technical Animator to bring cosmetics to life for characters and props using cutting-edge animation techniques. This fully remote role involves collaborating with design teams to develop best practices, creating dynamic rigs, and optimizing assets for performance across platforms. You'll be at the forefront of animation technology, mentoring team members and documenting workflows. If you're passionate about animation and thrive in a remote environment that values creativity and autonomy, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Remote Work

Continuous Improvement Culture

Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

Qualifications

• Expertise in rigging and animation tools like Maya.
• Experience with Unreal Engine's animation and rigging systems.

Responsibilities

• Create dynamic character rigs and improve processes.
• Collaborate with teams to meet creative and technical standards.

Skills

Rigging

Animation

Unreal Engine

Troubleshooting

Leadership

Communication

Python Scripting

Cross-Platform Development

Tools

Maya

Unreal Engine

Job description

Senior Technical Animator (Cosmetics) | North America | Europe | Fully Remote

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What we are looking for:
As a Senior Technical Animator, you will be responsible for breathing life into cosmetics for characters and props, leveraging rigging, runtime physics simulations, and procedural animation techniques in Unreal Engine. Working closely with the animation and design teams, you will help develop best practices to create amazing characters that scale efficiently across various platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Create dynamic character rigs and develop processes and pipelines to improve efficiency
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure assets meet creative and technical standards
• Develop and implement animation blueprints, simulation systems, secondary motion systems for characters and props
• Work with animation and tech art teams to troubleshoot and debug animation issues
• Optimize assets for performance across multiple platforms
• Document techniques and workflows; mentor team members to enhance their skills

Qualifications:

• Expertise with rigging and animation tools such as Maya
• Extensive experience with Unreal Engine's animation and rigging systems, including RigidBodies, Cloth, Anim Nodes, Control Rig
• Knowledge of creating efficient, scalable runtime characters and props
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and optimizing animation systems
• Ability to research and develop new techniques and approaches
• Strong leadership, communication, and task management skills
• Scripting experience (e.g., Python) is a plus
• Experience with cross-platform game development
• Self-motivated with a strong work ethic, growth mindset, and ability to work independently

Benefits:

Escape Velocity offers excellent benefits and values the time, energy, and talent of our team members. We support remote work nearly worldwide, prioritize honesty and autonomy, and foster a culture of continuous improvement and play.

How to apply: Click apply and submit your application along with your Resume/CV. Our recruiting team will contact you if your profile matches our needs.

Escape Velocity is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion in hiring, promotion, and compensation.