Technical Animator Star Wars Project

Job Description

Technical Animator [Star Wars Project] (M/NB/W)

Ubisoft's 21,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players' lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

Job Description

As a Technical Animator at Ubisoft Paris you will be working together with the team at Massive Entertainment to create a new story-driven open-world video game set in the Star Wars galaxy. Our goal is to create a game and a story that bring both new and lifelong fans on an immersive and outstanding journey, which will stay with them for years to come.

Missions:
• Work closely with Technical Directors, Animators, 3D Artists and Programmers to support content production with high quality results in the context of the project
• Gather and analyze the needs of the Animators in order to script and develop tools, from animation production to integration and execution in the game.
• Train the animation team and the rest of the project to use these tools and provide technical support
• Collaborate with Programmers on technical issues such as asset performance optimization
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Contribute to debugging efforts on the project

Qualifications
• You have experience as a Technical Animator on a successful AAA project and are now showing autonomy and proactivity;
• The production pipelines (implementation, optimizations and constraints) and animation on a game engine (such as Unreal, Unity ...) have no secrets for you;
• You have a good understanding of the issues related to real-time animation;
• You master different animation techniques: MOCAP, Keyframe, skinning, rigging, morph, IK, etc;
• You are able to train and teach your colleagues how to apply processes and use tools, thanks to your communication skills.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gpe3be-52-15-71-15-42 in your application.