Senior Technical Artist
Epic Games
Cary, NC
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Full Time Job
Senior Technical Animator
Epic Games
Cary, NC
01-12-2022
- Paid
- Full Time
- Mid (2-5 years) Experience
Job Description
Art at EpicWhat We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You'll Do
Epic Games is searching for Senior Technical Animators with a passion for expressive character movement to join our team working on Fortnite. In this talented team of veteran and emerging artists you'll collaborate across teams, and contribute directly to Fortnite and other Epic projects. Joining this team means you're motivated to seek solutions to problems and work with other artists to make positive changes to models, movements, and tools. The heart of this role is rigging and skinning Epic's never-ending line of awesome creations, each with their own set of challenges.
In This Role You Will
• Rigging characters, assets and vehicles
• 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
What We're Looking For
• Extensive experience rigging characters in Maya
• Experience leading and managing teams of artists
• A portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters, bipeds, and beasts, both body and faces
• Attention to aesthetic detail, especially with regards to character deformation and physics movement
• Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 4 art pipeline
• Positive individual with strong written communication and teamwork skills
• Exceptional problem-solver
• Python programming a plus
• You're user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
This position is open in multiple locations across North America including (but not limited to):
Cary, NC
Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Austin, TX
Seattle, WA
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r17m4v-3-146-221-204-42 in your application.
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Epic Games
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.