Studio: ZeniMax Online Studios
Job Opening: Senior Technical Artist
Location: Hunt Valley, Maryland, US
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work within a multidisciplinary team to develop efficient, maintainable workflows capable of supporting a large, complex project with a wide range of animation needs
- Develop tools and workflows to support animators
- Develop and maintain runtime animation graphs
- Provide direct support to the animation team
- Work with Engineering to develop best practices, technical guidelines, and performance metrics for animation
- Document workflows and advocate best practices
Qualifications & Skills:
- Fluent in one or more programming languages (Python, C#, C++, etc.)
- Solid technical background with an ability to design and implement systems
- 3+ years relevant industry experience
- A Bachelor’s degree in an art-related discipline
- Solid understanding of kinematics, animation principles and ability to translate this into tangible production tools and processes
- Experience with runtime animation tools, techniques and capabilities (Unity, Havok Behavior, Natural Motion, or proprietary systems, etc.)
- Experience working with an animation graph or similar system
- Experience rigging characters for animation
- Understand differences between production and runtime animation requirements
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Familiarity with common data formats: XML/JSON/etc.
- Familiarity with common 3D data formats: OBJ/FBX/ALEMBIC/etc.
Preferred Skills:
- Mocap Experience
- Experience working with 2 or more animation pipelines
- Linear algebra
- Perforce
- PyQt/PySide
- General interest in contemporary CGI techniques
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, visit https://careers-zenimax.icims.com/jobs/1356/senior-technical-artist-%28animation%29/job