Description
Come join the award-winning God of War development team! Sony Santa Monica is looking for a Senior Technical Animator to partner with the Gameplay Engineering, Animation, and Tech Art teams to drive the development of animation features, systems, and pipelines.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Collaborate with engineering, design, tech art, and animation teams to prototype features, drive the development of animation systems, and provide solutions to in game animation
A deep understanding of animation pipelines and the scripting experience to define and improve production pipelines and tools
Work with programmers and technical artists to maintain technical requirements involving all tool and pipeline development
Communicate across departments and support the teams in the integration of animations into the game engine by authoring animation blends, tags and best practices
Debug animation related problems related to compression and blending
Improve character animation pipeline and support driving new animation technology
Work in a team-oriented environment and use organizational and interpersonal skills on a daily basis and bring a creative and proactive attitude to the task of animating performances
Actively advances skill set and abilities by keeping aware of industry trends and techniques, evaluating competitive products, learning new software packages and traditional art methods
QUALIFICATIONS
Expert knowledge of motion capture processes and data manipulation
High level of expertise with MotionBuilder and Maya
In depth knowledge of in-game animation systems, blending and layering methods, retargeting, and state machines
Tools development and scripting skills, comfortable in languages like Python, MEL and LUA
Strong problem solver with the ability to support the animation team with troubleshooting and technical assistance
Good communication, organizational, time management, and interpersonal skills
Works under minimal direction to determine and develop approach to solutions
5+ years’ of industry or related experience