Senior Technical Animator

About the role

The Senior Technical Animator will support an unannounced project by working alongside the Animation Team to deliver and bring characters to life. This role involves creating and maintaining the rigging and technical animation pipeline while playing a key role in character implementation.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating and maintaining the rigging and technical animation pipeline for the projects.
• As part of the Animation Team, you will play a key role in implementing characters.
• Reporting to the Lead Animator and Art Director.

Required skills

• Rigging
• Technical animation
• Unreal Engine
• Skeletal pipeline
• Python
• MEL
• Max Script
• Cloth simulation
• Dynamics
• Animation blueprints
• Advanced Skeleton
• Rapid Rig
• mGear

Nice to have

• Facial Rigging
• Motion capture
• Procedural animation
• Shaders
• Lighting Tech
• VFX

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• 26 days holiday
• Pension plan
• Private medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• Fitness reimbursement plan
• Cycle to work scheme

About the Company

NaturalMotion is a game developer known for creating innovative experiences and is part of the Zynga and Take-Two Interactive family. The company has been recognized as one of the UK's Best Places to Work in games for eight consecutive years.