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Lead Technical Animator [Star Wars Project]

Job Description

We’re collaborating with Disney and Lucasfilm Games on a new story-driven open-world video game set in the beloved Star Wars galaxy. This is a lore we love and want to do justice with a game and story that bring both new and lifelong fans on an immersive and outstanding journey that will stay with them for years.

We are looking for a Lead Technical Animator, in this role you will supervise and mentor a team of Technical Animators. You will contribute to crafting a stunning interactive world, by bringing your own thoughts and experience to the table while inspiring your team to push the limits. As a Lead you are the expert and support on how to setup and guide the team on technical challenges for the execution of this work, collaborating with programmers, animators, character artists and game designers.

This is a permanent position based in Malmö, Sweden, and requires working onsite. We kindly ask you to apply with your CV, demo reel and message to the hiring manager / cover letter in English. Applications will be reviewed whilst the job-ad is posted.

Responsibilities

• Prioritizing, supervising and planning the team’s day-to-day work
• Providing constructive feedback, mentoring and coaching a team of Technical Animators
• Ensuring a productive workflow and beneficial relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Ensuring deliverables are completed on-time, on specs and up to quality standards
• Create and maintain an animation pipeline and DCC tools for gameplay and cinematic animators and character artists
• Supporting the gameplay and cinematic animation teams with animatable rigs
• Support animators with procedural animation solutions for some characters and vehicles
• Establish real-time IK solutions for any gameplay feature that requires it
• Debug animation and character problems in the game

Qualifications

You as a person

As a Lead, you are well organized, like to be on top of things and find the teams achievements to be motivating and important. You understand the challenges of real time production and have previous experience with animation and character pipelines, animation systems and character rigging and are able to supervise a team of like-minded people providing positive feedback and support whenever needed. Besides the above we’re looking for someone aligned with our core values and the following skills and experience:

• Professional experience supervising Technical Animation within game production(s) or movie industry
• Professional animation experience in rigging either from the game or movie industry
• Professional experience with setting up and/or maintaining animation and character pipelines
• Proven experience coaching, mentoring, and providing feedback
• Professional experience working with Maya, Mobu, Blender or other DCCs
• Professional experience with Game Engines (unreal, unity or similar)
• Ideally some experience setting animation systems in state machines
• Relevant portfolio/demo reel is desirable

Good to know

We aim to build a team that continuously pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in game development, and because we love to learn and grow from the people around us, we might ask you to complete a practical test as a part of the recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application and learning more about you. Meanwhile, please check out the videos posted below and our employee perks here, to gain greater insight into life at Massive.

Additional Information

Massive Entertainment is a world-leading AAA studio located in Malmö, Sweden and part of the Ubisoft family. We’re a multinational team of more than 650 passionate and highly skilled people from 50+ different countries. Our studio’s goal has always been – and still is – to craft the finest gaming experiences for all players.

At Massive, you get to do what you love most while bringing your own experience to our ongoing projects, like Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and The Star Wars Project. We're also developing new tech here, such as our in-house engine Snowdrop, and Ubisoft Connect - Ubisoft's digital ecosystem and distribution platform. All your application information will be kept confidential according to EEO & GDPR guidelines.