Animation Technical Artist - Rigging & Pipelines (Remote)

Keywords Studios; Indonesia; Hybrid; IDR 1,056,152,000 - 1,584,228,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is seeking an experienced Technical Animation Artist to bridge art and engineering on AAA projects. The role supports rigging, animation systems, tooling, and real-time pipelines within a hybrid/remote environment across APAC, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

You will work with animators, designers, and engineers to build robust rigs, retarget motion capture, and optimise animation performance, using Unreal/Unity, Maya, and other DCC tools.

Qualifications

• Bridge art and engineering to bring characters and worlds to life.
• Build animator-friendly rigs and scalable animation blueprints.
• Retarget motion data and optimise performance across projects.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with animators, character artists, and gameplay engineers.
• Translate animation requirements into engineering solutions.
• Diagnose rig, deformation, and physics issues and optimise systems.
• Design and maintain rigs for characters, creatures, props, and facial animation.
• Develop and refine animation pipelines and tools.

Skills

Character & Creature Rigging

Cloth / Hair / Ragdoll / Physics Setup

Animation Pipeline Development

Procedural Animation & Secondary Mot

Performance Profiling & Optimisation

Motion Capture Integration

Tool & Workflow Development

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Maya

3DS Max

Houdini

Perforce

Git

Photoshop

Substance

Job description

Keywords Studios is seeking an experienced Technical Animation Artist to bridge art and engineering on AAA projects. The role supports rigging, animation systems, tooling, and real-time pipelines within a hybrid/remote environment across APAC, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

You will work with animators, designers, and engineers to build robust rigs, retarget motion capture, and optimise animation performance, using Unreal/Unity, Maya, and other DCC tools.