Technical Designer in Animation

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What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What Youll Do

Epic Games is looking for a Technical Designer in Animation (TDiA) to join our team working across various animation systems. As a TDiA you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create gameplay animation systems that facilitate entertaining high-quality characters. You will be a primary point of contact for animation implementation any animation-related technical challenges and will work closely with Animation Design and Programming colleagues to ensure the animation pipeline operates smoothly and efficiently. You will also help identify potential issues and deploy correct solutions using your technical knowledge to help bridge and facilitate communication between the animation team and other departments.

In this role you will

• Build animation behavior tools techniques and frameworks that enable complex systems and entertaining characters
• Design and implement animation state machines behaviors and runtime solutions
• Partner with animation leadership to translate creative vision into technical reality protecting style consistency and pushing the quality bar
• Collaborate with Design and Programming to troubleshoot and resolve in-game animation issues and technical challenges
• Identify opportunities to improve the animation pipeline and workflow and provide technical solutions for the animation team
• Create documentation and deliver training to level up the animation teams technical fluency
• Collaborate with Technical Designers in Animation (TDiA) across Epic Games to share solutions align workflows where appropriate and identify opportunities to leverage existing tools and systems rather than duplicating effort

What were looking for

• A strong animation sense with a clear understanding of realistic and stylized character motion and how to achieve them with state-of-the-art animation methods
• An understanding of generative AI tools and capabilities as it relates to character animation
• Expertise with animation pipelines including source content creation tools such as Maya MotionBuilder and the Unreal Engine using our Control Rig toolset
• Exceptional problem-solving ability with strong written communication and teamwork skills
• Strong familiarity with gameplay animation tools and concepts such as blend trees state machines and Unreal Engine Animation Blueprints
• Experience with AAA game development preferably on a large team using an established game engine (internal or commercial); experience with Unreal Engine is a plus
• Self-motivation a strong work ethic and the ability to work independently
• Experience with C is not required

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We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical dental vision critical illness telemedicine Life and AD&D long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer addition to the EAP (employee assistance program) we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4500 employees globally. For over 25 years weve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epics award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity interactive experiences for PC console mobile and VR it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment automotive and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

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