Lead Technical Animator

Job Description

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Rocksteady is looking for a Lead Technical Animator to join our dedicated and
collaborative team working on AAA titles.
The role involves leading, supporting and developing our team of friendly and
passionate technical animators. You'll also be applying your technical expertise
directly by creating rigs, developing pipelines and collaborating with art and
animation teams to solve all kinds of problems.
Working closely with a plethora of leads and directors – you'll be developing
outstanding art assets with brilliant deformation alongside making easy to use
tools for gaining efficiency and quality.
Your Role Accountabilities...
• Supervise/create high quality character, body and facial rigs.
• Collaborate with the art and animation teams to assist on technical
challenges and improve pipelines and processes.
• Integrate, research and develop new technologies and tools to advance quality, efficiency and adaptability of animation, rigging and art pipelines.
• Create schedules/roadmaps alongside the production team.
• Leading and supporting the technical animation team through hiring, mentoring and running 121s/appraisals.
• Create and manage documentation for tools and processes within animation and asset processes in the studio.

Qualifications & Experience...
• Applicable understanding of anatomy and body mechanics.
• Relevant rigging/technical animation experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Python in Maya and coding standards and practices.
• Engine animation experience (Unity/Unreal).
Bonus Points:
• Experience with gameplay technical animation – such as state machines, cloth, physics and ragdoll setups – particularly in Unreal.
• Experience with Jira and/or Shotgrid.
• Experience with Motionbuilder, motionbuilder API and mocap processes.
• Experience with facial rigging.
• Programming knowledge such as C++/Maya API & Plugin Writing.
• Interest and experience with machine learning.
• Knowledge of vector maths, linear algebra and matrices.
Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-0213q8-216-73-216-25-42 in your application.