Senior Technical Animator

Job Description

Senior Technical Animator (Jedi: Survivor Team)

Founded in 2010 by the original creators of the Call of Duty Franchise, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when talented people have creative freedom, they'll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. From our roots as an indie studio to joining the expansive roster of studios at Electronic Arts, this remains our guiding principle. We truly love what we do and want to share our passion with players worldwide.
Our shipped titles include critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends, Titanfall, Titanfall 2, Star Wars™ Jedi: Fallen Order and Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.

We're looking for an accomplished Senior Technical Animator who will embrace our philosophy and share your hard-earned expertise to provide support to our Jedi: Survivor team's animation and art teams. As a Senior Technical Animator, you will play an integral part in empowering other developers by working closely with the Animation and Art Departments. If this sounds like you, we're looking forward to seeing your resume!

What you'll do...
• Reporting to the Lead Technical Animator, you will be responsible for rigging and skinning of characters and props, building new tools, and maintaining pipelines and processes.
• Research and development. Troubleshoot technical issues in Maya and game engine, keeping details records/documentation of tool creation.
• MEL/Python scripting in Maya.
• Improve the quality bar, develop solutions, and work with the Animation and Art Departments to streamline our processes.
• Game tools UI and workflow integration with code. Serve as the point person on how artists work and gate keeper of tools. Workflow vision holder.
• Get features running/testing before main production.
• Be a performance gate by finding cheaper solutions such as more efficient shaders, faster workflows, LOD tech, draw call managing.
• Work on research and development. Find new software and suss out both their positive features and weaknesses.
• Provide software support to the art team (DCCs such as Maya and Photoshop, tools, plugins, scripts and stability.)

Ideally, you'll have...
• 5+ years' game industry experience working on the technical side of Animation and Art in games.
• Advanced knowledge of Python scripting
• Experience in Maya scripting (MEL/Python.)
• Extensive rigging experience using Maya.
• A keen eye for proper skin deformation.
• Experience working with both key frame animation and motion capture data.
• Experience on one or more shipped title(s)

If this opportunity sounds like a great fit for you, please submit your resume and we will get back to you once we have reviewed it.

In addition to opportunities for creative impact and professional growth which come with being a member of our team, working at Respawn has many other perks and benefits! Learn more at respawn.com/perks.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dy45kq-18-216-123-120-42 in your application.