Lead Technical Animator

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.

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

Epic Games is searching for a Lead Gameplay Technical Animator with a passion for expressive character movement to join our this talented team of veteran and emerging artists youll collaborate across teams and contribute directly to Fortnite and other initiatives as part of our collaboration with Disney. Joining this team means youre motivated to seek solutions to problems and work with other disciplines to make positive changes to workflows tools and technologies that directly impact Gameplay.

• Work closely with technical animators Leads Directors and Outsource Managers on the team to ensure assets are set up for success in the different stages of production
• Communicate and drive alignment around strategy for technical animation and adjacent gameplay teams
• Work with production to schedule prioritize and delegate assets for the team both internal and vendor
• Work closely with animators modelers and designers to ensure a smooth development pipeline that delivers high-quality assets
• Assisting with pipeline tools and working with engine and project leads on the continuous improvement of those engine tools
• Mentor rigging-focused technical animators
• Rigging characters weapons creatures and vehicles
• Setting up assets in Unreal Engine 5; including control rigs cloth physics and blueprints
• Maintain detailed documentation video reference and examples of art asset production procedures and engine requirements to support internal and external artists

• Extensive experience rigging characters in Maya and/or Unreal Engine
• A portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters bipeds and creatures both body and faces
• Attention to aesthetic detail especially with regard to character deformation and physics movement
• Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline
• A positive individual with strong written communication and teamwork skills
• Exceptional problem-solver
• Control Rig experience a plus
• Python programming is a plus
• Youre user-focused passionate solutions-focused and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical Dental a Vision HRA Long Term Disability Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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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