Technical Animator
$90,000–$110,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Rig characters, creatures, and props adhering to animation needs while exporting, importing, and assembling animations in Unity. Create State Machines and Blend Trees, augment the animation pipeline, and propose tools to automate it. Assist the team with high-quality animation including short loops, locomotion cycles, and full cinematics with camera work. Collaborate with the Lead Animator to refine the game's style and feel, embellish story scenes with FX using particles or shaders, and maintain cloth simulation pipelines. Maintain clean, organized work files. Requires 5+ years rigging and 3+ years animating experience in Maya, a Master's in Unity, and onsite availability five days a week.
Required Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 years of experience rigging characters and props using Maya
- A minimum of 3 years of experience animating characters using Maya
- Master of Unity, with emphasis on anything animation and rigging related
- Self-motivated, an excellent communicator and a team player
- Go to great lengths to create outstanding work rather than settling for bare minimum
- Excellent understanding of human and animal anatomy
- Skilled in 3D character animation for bipedal humanoids, creatures, and organic forms
- Expertly apply animation principles to in-game animation: timing, acting, & body mechanics
- Experience with Unity particle systems
- Proven problem-solving and prototyping ability, collaborating within the animation team and across adjacent teams
- Excellent grasp of the English language
- Able to be onsite 5x a week
- Must provide a Demo Reel with examples of your most rigging and animation work
- Must provide a shot breakdown with an explanation of responsibilities
Desired Qualifications
- Have shipped AAA and/or mobile games as a technical animator, animator, rigger or tech artist
- Experience in creating animated shaders
- Film animation experience
- A passion for games!
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