Lead Gameplay Animator

Job Description

ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class animators who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is searching for a Gameplay Animation Lead to join our team to work on our collaboration with Disney. A successful candidate should have leadership experience and a great understanding of the fundamentals of animation, how they relate to gameplay and the ability to implement animations in the Unreal Engine. Proficiency in animation blueprints is a plus.

In this role, you will
• Lead a growing team of gameplay animators; mentor and provide technical and creative feedback to animators
• Maintain a healthy team by identifying team needs and addressing them by working with other team leads where necessary
• Create character-specific gameplay animations from initial concept through implementation in Unreal Engine using our Control Rig toolset
• Help drive technical implementation workflows and find ways to improve the animation pipeline and efficiencies in Unreal
• Drive collaboration across disciplines, including Production, Design, Technical Animation, and Technical Design to help drive the style and feel of animation at Epic

What we're looking for
• 2+ years of experience in a lead animator role, with demonstrated ability to manage or lead a team effectively
• You have an animation reel showing key-framed character and creature animations and/or a reel showing work that you have supervised
• Good instincts for realistic and stylized motions
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Familiarity with Maya and Unreal Engine 5 animation workflows
• Experience working with mocap data
• Experience having shipped at least one title
• Related skills, such as modeling, skinning, rigging are a plus

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwwq2k-3-147-54-242-42 in your application.