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Technical Artist

NCSoft is looking for an exceptional Technical Artist to join our R&D team for our exciting new unannounced IP, at our Aliso Viejo, California office. In addition, our R&D team provides technical solutions for multiple projects within our company, headquartered in South Korea.

Responsibilities

• Directly support and cycle between the animation and asset creation teams
• Create tools and scripts to automate animation production processes and rigging
• Periodically support the asset creation team with test rigging of movement range limitations within anatomical correctness for humans, creatures, and mechanical assets
• Implement game assets, rigs, and animations into Unreal 4
• Research production pipeline and tools, experiment, and discover best solutions

Requirements

• Production experience working as a technical artist in games
• Technical animation experience within Maya, MotionBuilder, and Unreal 4
• Experience creating tools with C++, Python, MEL, and other languages
• Familiarity with rigging and skinning, specifically in Maya
• Ability to comprehend artists and their needs regarding tools, and to translate those into actionable technical specifications
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Ability and willingness to participate in company presentations and travel internationally
• Able to quickly adapt to the ever-changing daily needs that is the nature of an R&D team
• Portfolio/work examples demonstrating your tech art abilities
• Always striving for excellence in technical art

Pluses

• Unreal shader creation experience
• Enthusiastic and knowledgeable about new technologies
• Passionate about video games and making them