Technical Animator Senior Technical Animator Quadrupeds Unreal Engine

You will create and optimize quadruped animation systems for multiplayer gameplay in Unreal Engine. You will configure locomotion, rigging, IK, animation blueprints, motion-capture workflows, and networked animation states while improving the animation pipeline and internal tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain quadruped animation systems
• Set up Animation Blueprints, State Machines, Blend Spaces, and Animation Layers
• Create IK/FK, Full Body IK, and procedural animation systems
• Set up quadruped locomotion and transitions
• Adapt animations between skeletons with IK Rig and IK Retargeter
• Clean up and retarget motion-capture data
• Create and maintain Control Rig tools
• Fix animation, IK, and blending artifacts
• Optimize animation systems
• Develop multiplayer animation systems with networked locomotion, prediction, and reconciliation
• Synchronize Montages and locomotion states in networked gameplay
• Improve the animation pipeline and internal tools

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical animation or gameplay animation experience
• Hands-on quadruped-character experience
• Portfolio with quadruped animation examples
• Unreal Engine animation systems
• Animal biomechanics and quadruped locomotion
• Rigging, skinning, and skeleton setup
• Motion-capture pipelines
• Maya, MotionBuilder, or similar DCC tools
• Root motion, animation curves, notifies, montages, and additive animation
• Animation-system debugging and optimization
• Local and replicated character state
• Latency, desynchronization, and animation popping
• Conversational English
• AA or AAA game project experience

Benefits

• Unlimited Flexible Time Off