Senior Technical Animator – Unannounced Project

Overview

As a Senior Technical Animator, you will own the rigging and animation pipeline for our next project, collaborating with the Animation Team to bring characters to life. You’ll leverage Unreal Engine to implement robust animation systems while optimizing for mobile devices. Your work spans rigging, retargeting, cloth dynamics, and pipeline documentation, ensuring scalable, high-quality character experiences. This role blends technical craftsmanship with creative iteration in a hybrid London setting, contributing to a marquee, unannounced project.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary and discretionary annual bonus
• 26 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 paid personal days
• Pension with double matching contribution
• Private medical & dental insurance
• Life insurance and income protection
• Flexible working hours

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the rigging and technical animation pipeline for projects
• Implement and integrate characters within the animation system
• Collaborate with the Lead Animator and Art Director to deliver character assets
• Document pipeline processes and ensure clear communication across the team

Key requirements

• Expert knowledge of skeletal pipelines from Rigging to in-game export, with mobile constraints
• Proficiency with Unreal Engine animation systems, including debugging and in-engine creation
• Advanced retargeting skills and shared skeleton pipelines, inside and outside the engine
• Understanding of cloth simulation and dynamics for mobile contexts, in-engine and in 3D software
• Scripting proficiency in MEL, Python, Max Script, etc.
• Foundational rigging knowledge (bones, IK, splines, blend shapes, skinning) and animation blueprints in Unreal
• Experience with major third-party rigging systems (Advanced Skeleton, Rapid Rig, mGear)
• Experience building scalable animation systems across multiple mobile devices
• Strong pipeline ownership with thorough documentation and cross-team communication

• Strong communication
• Collaborative mindset
• Ownership and accountability
• Unreal Engine animation systems
• MEL
• Python

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