Technical Animator

Job Description

Come join UNSEEN as a Technical Animator!

You will join our team to bring characters to life and create worlds with immersive animations that captivate users and spark their imagination.

The ideal candidate for this position has a deep understanding of body mechanics and action scenes. As a Technical Animator, you will work closely with Animators, Riggers, Engineers, and Designers to implement, optimize, maintain, debug and define asset requirements in-game.

We are looking for a technical animator who loves posing, crisp and dynamic action style and pushing the boundaries!

Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize in-game gameplay animation features and assets in cooperation with Gameplay Animators, Engineers and Designers
• Prototype the visual part of new gameplay mechanics in cooperation with Gameplay Animators and Designers
• Establish and maintain the animation workflow, folders, naming conventions, and engine-related structures

Qualifications

• Experience with keyframe animation, animation principles, and body mechanics
• Experience with animation graphs techniques - state machines, Blend Trees, Blend Spaces and Procedural Animation constructions
• Experience with Unreal Engine
• Proficient in Maya
• English speaking and writing skills (Japanese is a plus)
• A strong proactive and collaborative personality, eager to contribute unique ideas to the project

Pluses

• Experience animating action scenes, with strong posing and timing skills
• Experience animating cameras for action sequences
• Basic programming knowledge and experience using scripting and programming languages to automate animation processes and develop tools
• Strong sensibility and understanding of game design and gameplay
• Extensive knowledge of the visual language of anime and action scene composition

About the Company

We are a borderless and mysterious game development studio created by artists, founded by Ikumi Nakamura. We work without being seen.