Junior/intermediate Technical Animator

6 days ago

Lower Hutt, New Zealand A44 Full time

As a Technical Animator, you will collaborate with art, design and engineering to steer and creatively solve challenging technical problems with the Character and Animation pipelines. You’ll be responsible for the skinning and rigging of our characters, as well as developing tools and working within Unreal Engine to create performant, real-time rigs and animation systems.
- We are looking to hire a Full Time employee, for a Fixed Term of 12 months._

**Main Tasks and Responsibilities**:

- Rigging for our key projects - Rig and skin a diverse range of characters and props using mGear.
- Technical Animation - Work closely with the Animation team, Character Art team and Technical Art. Deliver high quality real-time character and animation performance in Unreal Engine 5.
- Technical Animation - Configure performant in-game character dynamics for cloth, hair, and other elements.
- Take an active hand in optimization work related to rigging and animation.

For intermediate role:

- Research new rigging tools and techniques, build on the rigging workflow, pipeline and documentation for your team.
- Develop character Control Rigs to allow for runtime animation adjustments.
- Develop and maintain technical animation tools and pipeline in a way that works with our wider tools and processes

**Skills and Experience Required**:

- Solid experience in: Unreal Engine 4/5, Maya
- Experience animating or working with animators to ensure the best possible rigs
- A good grasp of human anatomy, and how to bring this to life in CG with different levels of technical constraints
- Not fazed by the challenges of real time character and animation development and can propose solutions to optimise and improve performance
- A cohesive portfolio with clearly-documented work

Nice to haves (suitable for Intermediate role)
- Python / Mel
- 3+ years’ relevant experience in video game technical animation or rigging

**Timezones and work location**:
Ideally, based in our Wellington studio - however we are open to remote work options (preferably within Australia/New Zealand).

If you are based outside of Wellington but happy to travel and spend time in person with the wider team, please let us know

Our Wellington-based team generally works from home 1 day a week.
- Please note: You must have the right to work in New Zealand or Australia to be eligible for this position._
- We are looking to hire a Full Time employee, for a Fixed Term of 12 months. _

**_Competencies we look for_**

Animation Best Practice:

- _ Collaborate and discuss artistic and technical challenges with colleagues_
- _Proactively work together to maintain quality across the board_
- _Communicate efficiently, take notes and share important information and raise problems when you see them_
- _Self-manage your tasks to align with the timing and milestones of our Production Roadmap. When timings and priorities change, be open to discussing and working out the best way forward_
- _Track and note priorities and dependencies to ensure smooth development across the team and minimise delays across the project_
- _Execute on review feedback from the Animation Director in a spirit of analysis_
- _Be open to helping with requests and issues on behalf of the wider team if needed_
- _Take responsibility for your work, including preparing for work reviews ahead of time_

For intermediate role:

- _ Mentor the teammates around you and share your specialist knowledge_
- _Identify and learn leadership skills as part of your development_

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