What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Animator position at Turtle Rock Studios?
At Turtle Rock, we make the games we want to play. We're dedicated to providing a collaborative environment where our team members feel empowered with the creative freedom to contribute and grow. While we are based in Orange County, CA, we support flexible work arrangements ranging from in-studio, hybrid, to fully remote throughout North America. Join our award-winning game development team and help create our next AAA title.
We are looking for a Senior Technical Animator to join our team! Working with animators, engineers, and designers, this role focuses on developing and improving animation features in engine, implementing assets, and optimizing current animation systems, tools, and practices. Join our exceptional development team to help us create industry leading animation and gameplay experiences! This position will report to the Lead Technical Artist.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain animation blueprints, blendspaces, and montages within Unreal
- Construct and maintain rigs for unique characters through the development process
- Support and implement animation content, and fine tune parameters for gameplay animation
- Work directly with Programming, Animation, and Design to prototype and deliver excellent combat, character locomotion and movement mechanics, facial animation, and
- other new game features to deliver extremely polished gameplay and animation. Help to determine risk / reward throughout the process
- Help document design features and parameters, brainstorming all avenues for the creation of animation content
- Investigate, identify, and improve pipeline, optimize workflows and tools, setting best practices / standards streamlining the animation process
- Troubleshoot asset and editor problems for the Animation and other development teams
- Document systems and feature functionality for use by the teams and future employees
- Coordinate with all departments to achieve project goal
Requirements
Preferences
Benefits
Some of the benefits and perks our employees get to enjoy, include :
The estimated base pay range for this role is :
120,000 to $165,000 USD
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Salary : $120,000 - $165,000
