Technical Artist

Job Description

• Maintainable workflows capable of supporting a large, complex project with a wide range of animation needs

• 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

Requirements:

• Fluent in one or more programming language (Python, C#, C++, etc.)

• Solid technical background with ability to design and implement systems

• 5+ years of 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.

• Mocap Experience (Preferred)

• Experience working with 2 or more animation pipelines (Preferred)

• Linear algebra (Preferred)

• Perforce (Preferred)

• PyQt/PySide (Preferred)

• General interest in contemporary CGI techniques (Preferred)

On-line showreels and links to websites are welcome.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.