Technical Animator

Description

Technical Animator 

Job Description:

Tangentlemen are looking for a technically proficient Animator to be responsible for rigging, motion-capture wrangling and in-game animation. If you love working in the Unreal engine and have a passion for scary games, then try your hand at joining a new company and a new culture. You must thrive in a small, tight team environment where each member holds a high degree of autonomy and accountability.

Responsibilities:

• Rigging and skinning of characters and props.

• Helping to develop and maintain the animation pipeline.

• Willing to experiment with new processes and help R&D animation solutions.

• Create high quality animation content.

• Run and troubleshoot motion capture sessions.

• Collaborate with designers on solving gameplay problems while maintaining artistic vision

• Collaborate with the character team to develop character/creature models with proper proportions, define rigging, and other animation considerations

• Contribute to the creative process with original ideas and inspiration

Requirements:

• Proactive self-starter with a positive attitude.

• Experience working with both key frame animation and motion capture data.

• Experience using motion capture retargeting solutions (Motionbuilder / biped etc.)

• Have solid knowledge of Industry standard animation tools such as Maya / 3DStudio Max.

• Can demonstrate a strong understanding of fundamental animation principles and the ability to clearly communicate those ideas to others.

• Able to demonstrate an understanding of animation pipelines and standard industry processes.

• Possess technical knowledge/abilities with respect to the implementation of animation into a game engine.

• Experience rigging characters that include advanced rigging elements such as cloth / hair simulation and corrective blend shapes.

• Keen eye for proper skin deformation and ability to creatively resolve deformation issues.

• Experience with scripting MEL/Python/3dsmax.

Pluses:

• Experience with the Unreal (3 or preferably 4) game engine.

• Experience with in-game IK solutions such as Human IK.

• Experience with running motion capture sessions.

• Training or experience with acting.

• Experience creating particle effects.

• Experience working with physics simulation tools such as Phys X  or Havok

• Shipped games a plus.