Technical Animation Lead Position Available In Wake, North Carolina

Technical Animation Lead (R26570)
Department
Art & Animation
Location
Cary, United States
Product
Fortnite
Company
Epic Games
Requisition ID
R26570
WHAT

MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
ART
What We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You’ll Do
Epic Games is searching for a Lead Gameplay Technical Animator with a passion for expressive character movement to join our team. In this talented team of veteran and emerging artists, you’ll collaborate across teams and contribute directly to Fortnite and other Epic projects. Joining this team means you’re motivated to seek solutions to problems and work with other disciplines to make positive changes to workflows, tools, and technologies that directly impact Gameplay.
In this role, you will
Work closely with technical animators, Leads, Directors, and Outsource Managers on the team to ensure assets are set up for success in the different stages of production
Communicate and drive alignment around strategy for technical animation and adjacent gameplay teams
Work with production to schedule, prioritize, and delegate assets for the team
Working closely with animators, modelers, and designers to ensure a smooth development pipeline that delivers high-quality assets. This will also include mentorship of rigging-focused technical animators
Assisting with pipeline tools and working with engine and project leads on the continuous improvement of those engine tools
Setting up assets in Unreal Engine 5; including control rigs, cloth, physics, and blueprints
Rigging characters, weapons, creatures, and vehicles. Maintain detailed documentation, video reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support internal and external artists
What we’re looking for
Extensive experience rigging characters in Maya and/or Unreal Engine
A portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters, bipeds, and creatures, both body and faces
Attention to aesthetic detail, especially with regard to character deformation and physics movement
Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline
A positive individual with strong written communication and teamwork skills
Exceptional problem-solver
Control Rig experience a plus
Python programming is a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS

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EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.