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Technical Animator

Epic Games is looking for a Technical Animator focusing on rigging characters and skins for Fortnite.

Responsibilities:

• Rigging characters and character skins for a range of games
• Setting up assets in Unreal Engine 4; including cloth, physics, blueprints
• Working closely with modelers and animators to ensure a smooth development pipeline that delivers high quality assets
• Assisting with pipeline tools and working with engine and project leads on continuous improvement of those engine tools

Qualifications:

• Rigging reel showing the ability to set up characters for animation
• Strong experience with Maya and Mel scripting
• Knowledge of facial rigs for games, television or film
• Ability to create tools and write scripts to help improve the animation pipeline
• Game industry experience/shipped title experience
• Skilled at skin weighting characters to create the best deformation possible
• Skilled at running physics sims on cloth, hair or other physics items.
• Great communication skills and the ability to incorporate feedback into the rigs, and toolsets
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine 4 art pipeline
• Experience with Python
• Related skills such as modeling and animating
• Knowledge of current technology and trends in video games

This is going to be Epic!