Technical Animator (Characters)

Description

Motorsport Games is a division of Motorsport Network; it is the home for a team that believes in the power of interactive virtual motor racing and putting people in control of their own motorsports story. We are the destination for the world’s major motorsport series and brands from NASCAR to Le Mans and Formula E. We operate along the entire vertical of development, publishing and competitive esports ecosystem.

As a Technical Artist/Animator, you will join and cooperate with an experienced cross-discipline team working on AAA PC and console titles, where your expertise, enthusiasm, and communication skills will contribute to our goals by creating high quality control rigs for characters, as well as improving the quality and efficiency of our content workflows.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of technical art/rigging/animation experience in the games industry or related
  • Understanding of animation principles and human anatomy
  • Experience using Unreal Engine 4/5
  • Comfortable with all forms of character deformation (bones, blend shapes, displacement maps, cloth, hair, physics, etc)
  • Comfortable in a scripting environment
  • Experience documenting processes and collaborating with international teams
  • Great problem-solving and critical thinking ability
  • Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Rigging and skinning of characters and other assets
  • Developing animation tools and pipelines that improve production efficiency
  • Implementation of control rigs that simplify the work of animators and enable the quality of their output
  • Creation of tools and scripts that increase the productivity of the animation team, and generally bridging the gap between technical and creative disciplines
  • Creation and maintenance of technical documentation
  • Helping to reinforce teamwork and a healthy studio culture

Nice to have

  • Experience in another technical art area (e.g. VFX, lighting)
  • An interest in motorsports, sim racing or racing games

Benefits

Competitive salary, corporate benefits and the opportunity to define the future of racing from within an exciting, growing and friendly international games company

Unternehmen / Organisation: 
Motorsport Games