Technical Animator

The Multiplayer Group (MPG) are 300 developers and data scientists, helping our clients and partners build 20+ AAA projects at any one time. We’re probably the most experienced multiplayer dev group in the world and we’re set up to help the games industry make games more easily, to deliver the highest quality, and become long-term partners.

We hire the best people, our talented team is spread across the globe. We’re remote-friendly and big on wellbeing, so if you love the sound of us, we’d love to hear from you!

As a Technical Animator you are highly proficient in rigging and skinning for games. You will use your experience in character articulation, animation technology, game development and software languages and packages to help animators achieve their goals. You take work to final approval and assist others to understand your work of if they require support – working collaboratively across the team to ensure the best possible workflows and ideas are presented and realised in-game. You’re confident in providing estimates for your work and keeping the team informed on your progress – identifying risks and issues along the way. You’re team focused and offer help. You have a demonstrable talent shown in a showreel.

Role Specifics

Experienced Rigging and Skinning

Combat animation experience a plus

Keyframe experience

Experience with both Human & Creatures

Experience with Mocap data

Experience with Facial animation a plus

Experience with Maya, but can use a range of tools and scripting if needed

Works well with other crafts to bring the best out of the game (engineering/character/weapons/vfx/costume/world)Unreal Engine experience a plus

Knowledge of procedural, motion matching, machine learning techniques a plus

Cinematics experience a plus