Senior Technical Animator - UE4 Rigging & Tools (Flexible Hours)

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

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.