Senior Technical Animator | Hybrid London | Unreal Rigging

Zynga; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and annual bonus

Hybrid work: 2 days in London office

Pension with double matching

Private medical & dental insurance

Life insurance

Mental health support

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Fitness reimbursement

Weekly social events

Rail season ticket advance

Job summary

Zynga is seeking a Senior Technical Animator in London to support an unannounced project. You will join the Animation Team to deliver and bring to life our characters, focusing on robust rigging and efficient animation pipelines.

The role embraces a hybrid work setup—2 days per week in the London office and the rest remote—allowing collaboration across global studios within the Zynga and NaturalMotion family.

Qualifications

• Expert in skeletal pipeline from Rigging to exporting finalised characters into game, with mobile limitations.
• Proficient in animation systems in Unreal Engine, debugging and in-engine creation from scratch.
• Experience with retargeting and shared skeleton pipelines across matching and non-matching rigs.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the rigging and technical animation pipeline for the projects.
• Collaborate with the Animation Team to implement characters.
• Report to the Lead Animator and Art Director.

Skills

Rigging pipeline

Unreal Engine

Retargeting

Mobile optimization

MEL scripting

Python scripting

Max Script

Advanced Skeleton

Rapid Rig

mGear

Animation pipeline

Documentation

Communication

Facial rigging

Tools

Unreal Engine

MEL

Python

Max Script

Advanced Skeleton

Rapid Rig

mGear

Job description

Zynga is seeking a Senior Technical Animator in London to support an unannounced project. You will join the Animation Team to deliver and bring to life our characters, focusing on robust rigging and efficient animation pipelines.

The role embraces a hybrid work setup—2 days per week in the London office and the rest remote—allowing collaboration across global studios within the Zynga and NaturalMotion family.