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Senior Technical Designer In Animation

If you are looking for a remote-first home to bring your AAA Technical Design Animation skills and experience, look no further. Bring your passion for creating awesome games, and we'll provide an amazing team for you to work with along with a great environment and exciting AAA projects to work on! We also offer a full suite of benefits! This is a remote role!

Lost Boys Interactive is a rapidly growing AAA game studio, and the newest member of the Gearbox Software family, based in Madison, Wisconsin (Full remote work available) providing top-tier development for our partners as well as working on our own AAA game projects.

Supportive, Collaborative, Safe, Accepting, Respectful, Kind, and Fun are a few words that our employees use to describe their experience at Lost Boys Interactive. Do these words describe the kind of studio you would like to call home? Apply today to start your Lost Boys adventure!

Please note: You must reside in the US and have prior AAA experience to qualify for this role. We are sorry, but Lost Boys Interactive does not sponsor visas at this time.

As a Technical Designer in Animation, you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create animation systems that facilitate realistic and high quality motion. Working with animation, design, and engineering colleagues, you will develop new tools and/or refine existing ones to ensure the animation/behavior pipeline operates smoothly and efficiently. You will also help identify potential issues and deploy correct solutions, using your technical knowledge to help bridge and facilitate communication between the animation team and other departments, such as engineering and design.

What you’ll be doing with us:

• Facilitate the creation of animation behavior tools/techniques/philosophies that allow the building of complex movement systems in a manner accessible by content creators
• Design and implement animation state machines/behaviors and runtime solutions
• Look for opportunities to improve the animation pipeline/workflow and help provide solutions for technical animation problems, including performing training and creating documentation for the animation team
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and solve in-game animation implementation issues and animation-related technical challenges
• Closely collaborate with the animation leadership to maintain the style and quality bar for animations in the game

What you bring to the team

• A strong animation sense and a clear understanding of character motion and how to achieve it with modern animation methods
• A good understanding of the animation pipeline, including source content creation tools such as Maya and the export process into a game engine
• Knowledge of how to combine animations to create good-looking motion
• Experience with AAA game development, preferably on a large team using Unreal 4
• Familiarity with modern animation behavior tools and concepts, such as blend trees and state machines; experience with Unreal Engine Animation Blueprints is a plus
• Good communication and collaboration skills, especially with team members from other disciplines

You’ll be delighted with our people, our culture, and the amazing games you’ll be working on. Come join our merry band and apply today!

Lost Boys Interactive LLC is an equal opportunity employer.