Technical Animator (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Technical Animator (Gamedev): Responsible for bridging the gap between animation, design, and code teams, ensuring the smooth integration of characters, animation, and cinematics for a AAA IP. Focus on creating and maintaining animation systems for gameplay and cinematic content.

Location: Must be based in the UK

Company

Climax is one of the leading creative lights of independent games development with an outstanding line of top published titles.

What you will do

• Create and maintain animation systems for gameplay and cinematic content.
• Keep to project vision for best practices, methodologies used and quality benchmark.
• Work with the wider art, design and code teams to champion best technical practices.
• Provide constructive critique and solutions as part of reviews.
• Motivate team members.

Requirements

• Experience working as a Technical Animator on at least one published console title.
• Proven experience working within Unreal Engine or Unity.
• Strong Proficiency with character pipelines, animation systems and cinematics.
• Experience with procedural animation systems (Foot IK, Look-At, Realtime IK).
• Familiar with in-game animation processes and workflows.
• Experience in using version control systems.
• Be able to work collaboratively with artists, animators, designers and programmers.

Nice to have

• Experience working with MetaHuman.
• Experience with physics-based animation, chaos physics, ragdolls, cloth, hair.
• Experience of helping to plan and schedule workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Excellent holiday package.
• Regular social events.
• A friendly, focused, ambitious and relaxed working environment.
• Ongoing training and development, with career progression.
• Group Private Medical Insurance provided by BUPA.
• Company Pension Scheme.