Technical Animator

3 weeks ago


Remote, United Kingdom Skillsearch Limited Full time

If you're a skilled Technical Animator looking for a challenging new role at a well-known AAA studio, Skillsearch has an exciting opportunity for you. We are seeking a full-time Technical Animator to work on a new First Person Shooter in partnership with a major publisher. This role offers an unprecedented opportunity to work on a high-profile title that will be played by millions of gamers worldwide, and it comes with a compelling salary and benefits your expertise.

If you were already in this Technical Animator position, here are tasks you might have taken on this week:

- Work with the Concept, Design, and Art teams to collaboratively bring characters to life
- In-game implementation and optimization of gameplay animation features and assets in cooperation with animators and designers
- Develop technical animation pipelines and tools to help deliver cutting-edge animations
- Creatively and proactively solve resource-restricted technical challenges
- Provide technical support to both Gameplay and Cinematics departments

The ideal Technical Animator applicant will have experience using Unreal Engine, preferably UE5, and excellent knowledge of Maya and MotionBuilder. Additional qualifications include:

- At least three years of relevant experience in the game industry
- An understanding of animation graphs and techniques - State Machines, Blendspaces, Montages, Additives, etc
- Knowledge of complex rigging
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Mel
- A passion for computer games and the ability to adapt to new technologies

If you're looking to make a positive impact and create change, possessing an inclusive and committed approach, you'll be rewarded with an excellent salary and benefits package, including but not limited to:

- Five weeks of vacation per year + 10 national holidays
- Premium health benefits, plus extended healthcare coverage
- Relocation assistance with flexible start dates, relocation reimbursement, and assistance in finding housing
- Family-focused benefits, such as fully paid maternity and paternity leave and flexible work hours
- Professional Development with world-class workshops on accessibility, diversity, design and more from internationally recognized experts

Here at Skillsearch, we're a recruitment company. In the simplest form, this means we place people at new companies - but it's so much more than that. For the past 30 years, we've been busy helping people (like you) with sought after skills find jobs in the Games, Interactive and Enterprise Systems industries all around the globe. Our company comprises a team of dedicated consultants that work across various niche technologies, including Games, Virtual Reality, AR and XR, Workday, Oracle, Peoplesoft, and eCommerce. We are always exploring other cutting-edge markets. Follow us to see a few of the jobs we're working on, find out which events you can see us at, and keep up with news in the technology, gaming and interactive world. Welcome to Skillsearch

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Gym membership

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote

Reference ID: 14759


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