Senior Technical Animator — Hybrid (London) & Unreal Expert

Zyngacareers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & discretionary (年度

26 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 PD

Private medical & dental insurance

Pension plan with double matching

Life insurance & income protection

Mental health support

Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible working hours

Weekly happy hours & social events

Rail season ticket & cycle to work

Job summary

Zynga is seeking a Senior Technical Animator in London to join our team supporting a new unannounced project. You will work with the Animation Team to deliver and bring to life our characters, focusing on rigging, animation pipelines, and mobile-friendly optimization.

You will collaborate with Lead Animator and Art Director, work in a hybrid setup with 2 days in the London office and 3 days remote, and leverage your expertise in Unreal Engine and major third-party rigging systems to push

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of the skeletal pipeline from Rigging to exporting finalised characters into game, with a speciality of understanding mobile limitations.
• Expert in how animation systems work in Unreal Engine, debug, modify and being able to create them in game engines from scratch.
• Have expert knowledge of retargeting and shared skeleton pipeline, both in and out of engine and can expand into retargeting between non matching skeletons.
• Understand the setup of cloth sim and dynamics in both Engine and 3D software, the application of such and the requirements and limitations of its use on mobile.
• Proficient in 3D software relevant scripting languages; MEL, Python, Max Script, etc.
• Foundational knowledge of rigging; using bones, IK, Splines, Blend Shapes, Skinning, node editing and setting up animation blueprints in Unreal.
• Have advanced knowledge of major third party rigging systems used in the industry; Advanced Skeleton, Rapid Rig, mGear etc.
• Experience in animation systems that are scalable and able to work on a wide range of mobile devices.
• Complete ownership of pipeline with good documentation and communication.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the rigging and technical animation pipeline for projects.
• Play a key role in implementing characters as part of the Animation Team.
• Report to the Lead Animator and Art Director.

Skills

Skeletal pipeline

Unreal Engine

Retargeting

Cloth sim / dynamics

Scripting in MEL / Python / Max Script

Rigging fundamentals

Advanced rigging systems

Mobile device optimization

Pipeline ownership & documentation

Tools

Unreal Engine tools

MEL

Python

Max Script

Job description

Zynga is seeking a Senior Technical Animator in London to join our team supporting a new unannounced project. You will work with the Animation Team to deliver and bring to life our characters, focusing on rigging, animation pipelines, and mobile-friendly optimization.

You will collaborate with Lead Animator and Art Director, work in a hybrid setup with 2 days in the London office and 3 days remote, and leverage your expertise in Unreal Engine and major third-party rigging systems to push