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Lead Technical Animator
2 years ago
We are looking for a Lead Technical Animator to join our fantastic Animation team, where you will lead a team of Technical Animators to produce high quality animation solutions.
What you will do:
As the Lead Technical Animator you will research new technologies, innovations and processes to improve Rebellion’s technical animation solutions. You'll lead a team of Technical Animators to reach their full potential and ensure the creation of high-quality character, body and, facial rigs.
You will collaborate with Animation Directors, Lead Animators, Designers, Programmers and Producers to balance creative vision with production realities, as well as verify the quality of the animation pipeline, make improvements where necessary to fit technical constraints and artistic direction.
This role would suit a Senior Technical Animator looking for an exciting challenge where you will be a mentor and role model for the Technical Animation team as well as working to maintain morale and create an atmosphere of creativity and enthusiasm within the team.
The Rebellion Animation team is responsible for bringing characters for our multiple titles to life. The team work with Design and Character Art to ensure that the animation is in line with the creative direction of the project.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of Technical Animators with best practice people management techniques
- Work with PBR pipeline and advance game engine tools
- Research new technologies, innovations and create tools to advance animation efficiency
- Create or supervise the creation of high-quality character, body and, facial rigs with attention to latest practices in facial animation techniques.
- Create documentation for any newly conceived processes
- Lead the Research and Development process
Requirements
- Able to create retargeting and batching tools to deal with large amount of data
- Experience creating Facial Tools, Facial Mocap.
- Knowledge of Pose Space deformations
- Advanced knowledge of Matrices, Vector Math, and Linear algebra.
- Extensive knowledge of C++, Writing and compiling Plugins for maya.
- Extensive knowledge of Maya API [C++ and Python], and MotionBuilder API
- Knowledge of anatomy and body mechanics
- Expert knowledge of 3D software such as Maya and MotionBuilder with a technical focus on rigging and skinning.
- Expert knowledge of the video game development process and production pipelines
- Extensive knowledge of writing tools with MEL/Python/PyMe and PyQt For GUI
- Radial Basis Functions Knowledge, and RBF Solvers is a Plus
- Game Engine Knowledge: Game Logic, mechanics, blueprinting and State machines is a Plus
Benefits
- Holiday: 26 holiday days annually, increasing with service to 31 days, plus national public holidays
- Private Medical Insurance: Our PMI scheme offers comprehensive cover to access private medical treatment, taking the stress and strain out of waiting for treatments via the NHS
- Pension Contribution: Tax efficient salary sacrifice contributory pension scheme where Rebellion matches 4% of salary, plus 10% of any contribution you make
- Healthcare Cash Plan: Cash-back on treatment costs, from flu jabs to chiropractors
- Dental & Vision: Cash-back on routine or emergency costs, free eye tests
- Income Protection: Financial help if unable to work due to illness or injury
- Critical Illness: Financial help if diagnosed with critical illness
- Life Assurance: Financial security for your loved ones at a difficult time
- EAP: Wellbeing hub, including confidential telephone support and counselling
- Active Rewards: Earn discounts and other perks for physical activity, from trainers to cinema tickets
- Gym Membership: Discounts to over 3,000 participating UK gyms, pools & fitness events
- Loans: Interest free, tax-free loans
- Relocation: Assistance with relocation planning and costs
- Cycling Cycle Scheme: Save around 30% of the cost of a new bike and equipment though salary sacrifice tax & NI savings, spread repayments over 12 months
- Discounts: 50% off most 2000 AD merchandise, plus Active Rewards and more through health schemes, from high street retail to holidays
- Referral Bonus: Up to £2k bonus for internal staff referrals that lead to hires
- Flexible Hours: Flexible start and finish times
- Great Friendly Culture: Friendly, creative and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and recognition of the importance of work-life balance (anti-crunch)
- Social & Charity Events: Annual Summer BBQ & Christmas Party, social groups such as photography and board games, charity events including football, go-karting and supporting Special Effect
- Digital Freebies: GDC Vault access, all Rebellion Steam titles, digital copies of 2000 AD and Rebellion Publishing comics, graphic novels and ebooks, physical game and film libraries
About Us:
Rebellion is a leading developer and publisher of games, and is also one of Europe’s biggest independent studios operating across books, comics, TV and film. Our Sniper Elite series is renowned for its authentic stealth and sniping gameplay with more than 35 million players worldwide. The Zombie Army franchise is a spine-chilling zombie shooter, and the recently released Evil Genius 2 is a satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind!
And those are just the projects you know about – there are loads more!
Diversity and Inclusion at Rebellion
We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We would like to invite all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neuro-diversity and beyond because we believe a representative team makes better games and provides a better working life.
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