Hybrid Technical Animator & Rigger — Unreal Pipeline Pro

Lightfold; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Lightfold Games in Atlanta, GA is hiring a full-time Technical Animator / Rigger to design, build, and maintain character and creature rigs for animation across games and related media. You will create deformation setups, integrate motion capture data into production pipelines, and collaborate with animators, designers, and engineers to keep rigs intuitive, performant, and visually compelling.

This hybrid role supports a large roster of variants for our upcoming co-op horde shooter, with

Qualifications

• Strong rigging and skinning experience (Maya or equivalent).
• Experience with in-engine animation pipelines (Unreal Engine preferred).
• Comfortable supporting a large roster of animated variants.
• Proficiency in motion capture workflows (cleaning, retargeting & integration).
• Understanding of animation principles & practical work for games/film.

Responsibilities

• Build skeletal rigs and skin weighting for players and monster variants.
• Develop locomotion cycles and get them working cleanly in-engine.
• Support animation-state needs: running, strafing, aiming, hits, deaths.
• Collaborate with artists on rig-friendly topology.
• Script tools to streamline rigging & animation tasks.

Skills

Rigging

Skinning

Motion capture workflows

Animation pipeline experience

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in animation or related field

Tools

Maya

Unreal Engine

Blender

Python

MEL

Job description

Lightfold Games in Atlanta, GA is hiring a full-time Technical Animator / Rigger to design, build, and maintain character and creature rigs for animation across games and related media. You will create deformation setups, integrate motion capture data into production pipelines, and collaborate with animators, designers, and engineers to keep rigs intuitive, performant, and visually compelling.

This hybrid role supports a large roster of variants for our upcoming co-op horde shooter, with