Senior Technical Animator

WHAT MAKES US EPIC

At the core of Epics success are talented passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative welcoming and creative environment. Whether its building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences were always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. Were constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ART

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 searching for a Senior Technical Animator with a passion for expressive character movement to work within the Cinematics this talented team of veteran and emerging artists youll collaborate with an internal team but also will include work with vendors and specifically contribute directly to high profile trailers related to Fortnite and other IP related projects. Joining this team means youre motivated to seek solutions to problems and work with other artists to make positive changes to models movements and tools. The heart of this role is rigging pipeline and tooling.

In this role you will

• Rig characters props and vehicles
• Set up assets in Unreal Engine 5; including cloth physics blueprints
• Work closely with modelers and animators to ensure a smooth development pipeline and workflow that delivers high quality assets
• Assist and build pipeline tools and work with engine and project leads on continuous improvement of those engine tools
• Direct Technical Animation work for Cinematic trailers including outsourced and internal trailers
• Provide support and optimization for Animation Team including performance/speed optimizations engine stability control rig/constraint bug issues and animation workflows
• Design UI Pickers for the Animation team

What were looking for

• Extensive experience rigging characters in the Unreal Engine
• A portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters bipeds and creatures both body and faces
• Attention to aesthetic detail especially with regards to character deformation and physics movement
• Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline
• Positive individual with strong written communication and teamwork skills
• Exceptional problem-solver
• Experience developing character pipelines and tools

EPIC JOB EPIC BENEFITS EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees (EEs) and dependents (deps). Our current benefits package includes coverage for medical dental and life insurance. We also offer supplemental benefits including daily meal vouchers and commuter benefits for onsite employees.

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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