metricminds are seeking to hire a technical Artist to join their talented team. metricminds are a unique service provider who create fantastic, animated content for studios including 2K Games, EA, Epic, Guerrilla Games, THQ Nordic to name a few.
As a Technical Animator you will be working directly in Unreal or customized versions of the engine to create stunning cutscenes and trailers for AA/AAA games, putting a strong focus on storytelling while keeping the client’s objectives for each cutscene in mind, you will also integrate cutscene content coming from third party software.
Your key responsibilities will include…
Help drive the development of quality cinematics / cutscenes
Integrate cinematics / cutscenes content coming from 3rd party software
Troubleshoot and solve issues related to animation and unreal sequencer
General In-engine and cinematics / cutscenes maintenance
Collaborate with art and technical direction to achieve artistic vision
The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role…
Experience in game development
Solid knowledge of the Unreal Engine
Ability to identify and describe issues and bugs
Experience with data transfers between engines and 3rd party software content
Knowledge of animation inside the Unreal Engine (e.g. control rig, animation editor, animation blueprints)
Strong artistic and technical skills and an excellent attention to detail
Strong time management & organisation skills
Communication skills both in a technical and creative basis
Comfortable working as part of a team
Ability to develop clear and concise content guidelines and workflows to ensure best practice
A problem-solving attitude
Bonus if you have any experience of the following…
Game development pipelines and cinematic pipelines
Professional experience of scripting and tool development Python/Blueprints
Industry experience of real-time work on cinematics/cutscenes
Solid animation knowledge
Working experience with MotionBuilder
Comfortable working with motion capture data
metricminds offer relocation assistance to make the move to your new role all the easier, to find out more about the role or about metricminds and their culture contact Margaret on +44 (0)1709 834777 or by email margaret@aswift.com
