Technical Animator (Gamedev)

TL;DR

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

Location: Must be based in the UK, London.

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.
• Ability to self-motivate as-well-as motivate other members of the team.

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.

Nice to have

• Experience working with MetaHuman.
• Experience with physics-based animation, chaos physics, ragdolls, cloth, hair.

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.