Senior Technical Animator

Senior Technical Animator – 12939

Are you an experienced technical animator looking for a leading role? Do you want the opportunity to showcase and grow your skills within a seasoned and proven team? This might be the perfect role for you…

As a Senior Technical Animator, you will be working fully remote within the UK, assisting in lead responsibilities and producing polished rigs, animation and character pipelines to a world class standard. You will work with code and design to achieve outstanding and engaging player experiences.

This studio offers a welcoming and relaxed working environment, and alongside this, offer an industry-leading benefits package. This includes generous holidays, huge social events, free snacks onsite, game jams, and loads more. 

Requirements

• Solid industry experience animating characters for consoles or PC games
• Completed games previously in a senior animation role with a strong demo reel of experience
• Knowledge of Maya and 3DstudioMax and an understanding of animation fundamentals for human and non-human characters
• Understanding of scripting MaxScript or Python
• In depth understanding of character creation processes from concepts to modelling and final rigging with experience in creating animation of a high standard whilst maintaining specifications for game mechanics

Responsibilities

• Develop, manage, and maintain a character pipeline whilst exhibiting an understanding of the animation principles and applying them into animation design
• Working with code and design to achieve solid and engaging player experiences
• Assisting in Lead responsibilities such as mentoring, scheduling and R&D into new features
• Contributing towards the conceptualization of character behaviours and abilities
• Providing detailed inputs throughout the character creation process from the concepts to the modelling and final rigging and identifying the character functionality requirements

If you think you could be the right fit for this senior role, please contact Ashley at ab@skillsearch.com for more details.

Years of experience and salary levels are shown purely as a guide. We will only consider applications from candidates that can demonstrate the skills or experience required for the role.

Please be aware that while we would love to respond to every application we receive, due to high numbers we cannot guarantee this. We do however appreciate any time you invest into the application and will make sure to get in touch should anything in future more closely fit your skillset.