Lead animator

What You’ll Do

Epic Games is searching for a Gameplay Animation Lead to join our team to work on our collaboration with Disney. A successful candidate should have leadership experience and a great understanding of the fundamentals of animation, how they relate to gameplay and the ability to implement animations in the Unreal Engine. Proficiency in animation blueprints is a plus.

In this role, you will

• Lead a growing team of gameplay animators; mentor and provide technical and creative feedback to animators
• Maintain a healthy team by identifying team needs and addressing them by working with other team leads where necessary
• Create character-specific gameplay animations from initial concept through implementation in Unreal Engine using our Control Rig toolset
• Help drive technical implementation workflows and find ways to improve the animation pipeline and efficiencies in Unreal
• Drive collaboration across disciplines, including Production, Design, Technical Animation, and Technical Design to help drive the style and feel of animation at Epic

What we’re looking for

• 2+ years of experience in a lead animator role, with demonstrated ability to manage or lead a team effectively
• You have an animation reel showing key-framed character and creature animations and/or a reel showing work that you have supervised
• Good instincts for realistic and stylized motions
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Familiarity with Maya and Unreal Engine 5 animation workflows
• Experience working with mocap data
• Experience having shipped at least one title
• Related skills, such as modeling, skinning, rigging are a plus

#J-18808-Ljbffr Recommended Skills

• Blueprinting
• Computer Animation
• Engineering Design Process
• Leadership
• Maya
• Workflows

Tagged as: Animations, Blueprinting, Collaboration, Communication, Computer Animation, Creative, Engineering Design, Leadership, Maya, Process, Production, Rigging, Skinning, Technical Animation, technical design, Unreal Engine, Workflows