Senior animator

What You’ll Do

Epic Games is searching for Gameplay Animators to join our team to work on our collaboration with Disney. You’ll create original animation with a strong emphasis on style and appeal that’s grounded in realistic world physics. A great understanding is needed of the fundamentals of animation and how they relate to game animation and the ability to implement animations in the Unreal 5 game engine using our animation blueprint system. A strong sense of gameplay feel and timing in relation to game design principles.

In this role, you will

• Create character-specific animations such as gameplay animations in Unreal Engine using our Control Rig toolset
• Take animation from initial concept through implementation in Unreal Engine 5 using our animation blueprint system
• Drive collaboration across disciplines, including Production, Design, Technical Animation, Technical Design, and implementation to help drive the style and feel of best-in-class animation
• Collaborate with leads in a dailies style critique environment, find optimal solutions, and address basic issues as they arise
• Refine animations and gameplay feel as needed to get the best quality animation within the timeline

What we’re looking for

• A strong animation reel showing expertise in key-framed character and creature animation
• Relevant experience in both gameplay and cinematic animation
• Good instincts for realistic and stylized motions
• Familiarity with Maya and Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline
• Understanding of modeling, skinning, and rigging
• Experience working with Motion Capture is a plus
• Experience with working on hard surface or vehicle animation is a plus

#J-18808-Ljbffr Recommended Skills

• Blueprinting
• Computer Animation
• Engineering Design Process
• Game Design
• Game Engine
• Motion Capture

Tagged as: Animations, Blueprinting, Collaboration, Computer Animation, Design Process, Engineering, game design, game engine, Maya, motion capture, Physics, Production, Rigging, Skinning, Technical Animation, technical design, Unreal Engine, Vehicle Animation