Technical Animator

2 weeks ago


Middlesbrough, United Kingdom Radical Forge Full time

**Our Mission**:
Radical Forge is a Middlesborough, UK-based developer that has provided co-development services on a range of AAA and indie titles. In 2021 the company created their first original IP, 'Brightpaw', which was published on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One/Series S/X, Google and iOS by Rogue Games.

Since its beginnings in 2017, the company has grown to over 70 incredibly talented, collaborative, and creative individuals. We are the sum of our skills, passion, and, most of all, our people. We firmly believe that treating individuals with genuine respect, understanding, and kindness creates a welcoming culture that allows creativity to thrive and for individuals to join together to create games they are genuinely proud of.

**Your Mission**:

- Develop tools and workflows to support animators
- Develop and maintain runtime animation graphs
- Provide direct support to the animation team
- Work with Engineering to develop best practices, technical guidelines, and performance metrics for animation
- Document workflows and advocate best practices

***Ideal Applicant**:

- Fluent in one or more programming language (Python, C#, C++, etc.)
- Solid technical background with ability to design and implement systems
- significant relevant industry experience including art-related experience
- Solid understanding of kinematics, animation principles, and ability to translate this into tangible production tools and processes
- Experience with runtime animation tools, techniques, and capabilities (Unity, Havok Behavior, Natural Motion, or proprietary systems, etc.)
- Experience working with an animation graph or similar system
- Experience rigging characters for animation
- Understand differences between production and runtime animation requirements
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Familiarity with common data formats: XML/JSON/etc.
- Familiarity with common 3D data formats: OBJ/FBX/ALEMBIC/etc.

**Skills Summary**:

- Mocap Experience
- Experience working with 2 or more animation pipelines
- Linear algebra
- Perforce
- PyQt/PySide
- General interest in contemporary CGI techniquesWe will require all applicants to have a pre-existing right to work in the UK/EU.

Remote working is only available for those based in the UK/EU with a right to work in the UK/EU.

Interested in the job but don't feel you match the criteria? If you feel passionate about this role or joining the Radical Forge team we would still like to hear from you We value our company culture, and we’re always looking for creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds to join our team

**Perks of the Job**:
**Employee Health Benefits**:
We provide employees with access to multiple health care schemes upon successfully completing probation.

**Flexible Working**:
We offer a flexible work schedule with hybrid remote work options. We also aim to close the studio for two weeks at Christmas gratis.

**Open & Honest**:
We value your journey as much as our own. Therefore we like to keep our employees in the loop every quarter about where we are heading as a studio and what's happening behind the scenes.

**Equal Opportunities Promise**:
All employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status or veteran status. We will also consider employment for qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law.


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