Senior Technical Designer In Animation (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Technical Designer in Animation (Gamedev): Designing and creating gameplay animation systems that facilitate appealing, high-quality character motion with an accent on animation implementation issues and animation-related technical challenges. Focus on improving the animation pipeline/workflow and providing solutions for technical animation problems.

Location: Onsite in Vancouver, Canada

Salary: $145,844 — $213,905 CAD

Company

hirify.global is known for creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment and building award-winning games and crafting engine technology.

What you will do

• Create animation behavior tools/techniques/philosophies that allow the building of complex movement systems.
• Design and implement animation state machines/behaviors and runtime solutions.
• Work closely with the Animation, Design, and Programming departments to analyze, troubleshoot, and solve in-game animation implementation issues and animation-related technical challenges.
• Collaborate with the animation leadership to maintain the style and quality bar for animations in the game.
• Look for opportunities to improve the animation pipeline/workflow and help provide solutions for technical animation problems, including performing training and creating documentation for the animation team.

Requirements

• A strong animation sense with a clear understanding of realistic and stylized character motion and how to achieve them with modern animation methods.
• Expertise with animation pipelines, including source content creation tools such as Maya, MotionBuilder, and the Unreal Engine, using our Control Rig toolset.
• Exceptional problem-solving ability with strong written communication and teamwork skills.
• Familiarity with gameplay animation tools and concepts, such as blend trees and state machines; experience with Unreal Engine Animation Blueprints is a plus.
• Experience with AAA game development, preferably on a large team using an established game engine (internal or commercial); experience with Unreal Engine is a plus.
• Self-motivation, a strong work ethic, and the ability to work independently.

Culture & Benefits

• Epic pays 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), Epic also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.