Senior Technical Animator

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 You'll Do

Epic Games is searching for a Senior Technical Animator with a passion for expressive character movement to work within the Cinematics team. In this talented team of veteran and emerging artists you’ll 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 you’re 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 we're 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 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 match. In 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.