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Character Technical Artist

We are seeking a talented, motivated, and experienced Character Technical Artist to help bring the Core metaverse to life. You will help build exciting stylized avatars and characters for a vast range of games and experiences spanning many themes and genres. Our headquarters are located in San Mateo, CA but this role can be fully remote.

Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining animation rigs, tools, and workflows.
• Designing and setting up real-time character dynamics (cloth, hair, chains, etc).
• Developing facial rigs using joints and pose assets.
• Working with the animation team to create artist-friendly rigs that satisfy animation and gameplay needs.
• Working with art teams to develop models that meet technical requirements.
• Assisting the animation team in troubleshooting setup and animation problems as they arise.
• Integrating artwork from internal and external sources to game systems including Blueprint Asset content, Data Assets, and Character Parts, for use in the game.

Requirements

• Strong Maya rigging/setup skills.
• Understanding of human and animal anatomy.
• Python and MEL scripting proficiency.
• A minimum of 3 years of production experience in game development.
• Previous experience with UE4 or other AAA game engines.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines such as art, design and engineering.
• High level of comfort and familiarity with version control and asset management solutions (Perforce, git, etc).

Pluses

• Mobile development experience.
• Experience building Animation State Machines.
• Material graph and Shader writing experience.
• Worked on a live service shipping characters on a cadence.
• Experience optimizing assets for mobile.
• Fluency in NFTs, Crypto, Metaverse.