Senior Technical Animator
Senior Technical Animator
Senior Technical Animator
Epic Games
Epic Games is seeking a Senior Technical Animator to join their Cinematics team, focusing on character movement and rigging for high-profile trailers related to Fortnite and other intellectual properties. The role emphasizes collaboration with artists and vendors, problem-solving, and continuous improvement of animation tools and workflows.
Qualification
- Extensive experience rigging characters in Unreal Engine
- Portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters and creatures
- Attention to aesthetic detail in character deformation and physics movement
- Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline
- Positive individual with a collaborative mindset
Responsibility
- Rig characters, props, and vehicles
- Set up assets in Unreal Engine 5, including cloth, physics, and blueprints
- Collaborate with modelers and animators to ensure a smooth development pipeline
- Assist in building pipeline tools and improving engine tools
- Direct Technical Animation work for Cinematic trailers
- Provide support and optimization for the Animation Team
- Design UI Pickers for the Animation team
