As a Technical Animator, you will work alongside and support the Animation Team creating character, vehicle, weapon rigs and tools needed to support a creative and efficient production pipeline. 

Experience & Requirements

• Creating/debugging character/prop rigs for various projects.
• Character skinning or skinning direction.
• Coordinating with character artists and animators, taking feedback on rigs and identifying areas to improve the creation of animation content.
• Collaborating with technical team for scripting/plugin help when needed.
• Character/animation project planning; identifying rigging requirements and how they will affect modelling/animation.
• Staying up to date on latest rigging/animation methods/workflow, and animator efficiency.
• Helping develop and maintain character facial rigs to support facial animation pipelines.
• Participating in and supervising integration of the animation assets into the game engine.

Required Skills

• Must be proficient in Maya & Max.
• IK/FK blending, spline controls, expressions, animator-friendly control setups.IK/FK
• Facial Rigging (Joint based & blendshapes). 
• Animation clip & pose library creation/sharing. 
• Passion for animation, organized, team player. 
• Excellent in communication and resourcefulness in problem solving.

Additional Preferred Skills

• Proficient in Blender. 
• Experience with MotionBuilder 
• Houdini KineFX. 
• Animation experience. 
• English (Written and/or spoken). 
• Game engine (Unreal, Unity, etc) experience.