Senior Technical Animator
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Hybrid / WFH Options
Kinetic Games
Animator to join our team. As a Senior Technical Animator, you will play a crucial role in bringing characters, creatures, and environmental elements to life with high-quality, efficient animation systems. You will work closely with artists, designers and programmers to develop robust rigs, create fluid animation workflows, and implement animations directly into Unity. Your technical expertise will ensure that … and perform well across multiple platforms. Responsibilities: Design, create, and maintain complex character, creature, camera and object rigs that are efficient, flexible, and easy to use. Implement and maintain animation systems and state machines within Unity, ensuring smooth and polished in-game animations. Develop tools to streamline animation pipelines and workflows. Work closely with artists and programmers to troubleshoot rigging … skinning, and implementation challenges. Collaborate with the programming team to define and improve the animation pipeline and runtime animation systems. Optimize animations for performance across PC, VR, PSVR2, and consoles. Ensure that animations meet technical standards for gameplay responsiveness and visual fidelity. Requirements: Professional experience as a Technical Animator or similar role on at least one shipped Unity title. Expertise More ❯
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