SENIOR TECHNICAL ANIMATOR (YAGER) 🕹 The cycle: frontier 🧠 Senior 💰 По договоренности ⏰ Full-Time 🌎 Удаленно || 👔 Офис (🇩🇪 Berlin) Relocate 🦄 Описание YAGER makes computer games and is based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1999 by 5 enthusiastic gamers, we combine long-term experience with a resilient and innovative spirit. We are looking for a talented and experienced Technical Animator to come join our team and develop amazing games with us. We’re looking for talented professionals who love working in interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced and creative environment. The technical animator’s primary mission is to rig characters, solve technical production issues, streamline processes and develop tools and frameworks for character animation. 🚀 Что ты будешь делать • Improve the character animation pipeline and tools • Work together with character art and animation as well as design and engineering to ensure good in-game results • Troubleshoot and solve technical production issues • Research and integrate new technology and define the technical direction of game development • Work closely with other disciplines in small interdisciplinary teams in order to achieve features that are more than the sum of its parts • Estimate high level goals and provide solutions to high level problems in planning • Take a big part in review cycles, both in providing feedback for coworkers and improving based on feedback from team members • Mentor and spread knowledge to other team members 📚 Твои скиллы • 5+ years of gaming production experience • Understanding of game engines, tools, pipelines, development processes • Professional experience with unreal engine or comparable game engine • Ability to create character/creature rigs that enable the production of great animations • Strong knowledge of one or more major 3d packages, maya preferred • Experience working with mel (maya), python (maya, motion builder) and c++ • Ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks, meet deadlines and excel under production conditions • Good communication skills across multiple disciplines; ability and willingness to accept and follow direction, and to work collaboratively; excel as a team player • Enthusiasm to learn and grow professionally • Passionate about videogames 👍 Круто, если знаешь • Experience with motion capture data • Professional experience with 1st person rigging • Professional experience with creature rigging • Good knowledge of the unreal engine, animation blueprints in particular • Experience with animation trees and state machines in general • Experience with node based scripting • Experience with control rig in unreal engine 🌐 Vacancy link #UnrealEngine #GameDev #FullTime #Code #Art #Senior #Remote #Office #Yager