Technical Artist
2 weeks ago
Skybound Entertainment is seeking a highly skilled Technical Artist to join our team. As a Technical Artist, you will play a crucial role in creating and maintaining character rigs, animations, and dynamics for our games.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive research and development of new technologies and workflows.
- Create and maintain complex character rigs, including body and facial rigs, and skinning for characters, clothing, and props.
- Develop and maintain damage and destruction systems, ensuring seamless integration with animations and physics.
- Troubleshoot technical issues related to rigs, animations, hair, and cloth simulations, and destruction models.
Requirements:
- Fluent in Maya with significant experience writing animation, rigging, and UI tools.
- Proficient in one or more programming/GUI languages (e.g., Python, PySide/PyQt).
- Experience with cloth and rigid/soft body physics setup for characters, including collision volumes.
- A strong understanding of anatomy, gesture, and silhouette.
- Experience researching, piloting, and rolling out new techniques.
Preferred Qualifications:
- C#/C++/Maya API experience.
- Video games industry experience and/or gaming familiarity.
- Experience with JIRA, DeltaDNA, Perforce, and Confluence.
- End-to-end knowledge of game production processes and ability to scale your role to each phase.
- Unreal Engine experience.
- Passion for video game development.
- Passion for combat-oriented games.
- Passion for Skybound IP.
What We Offer:
- A competitive salary range of $130,000-$140,000.
- A comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending, and dependent care accounts.
- A 401K plan with 4% match.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Generous time off and wellness benefits.
- Tuition reimbursement.
About Skybound Entertainment:
Skybound Entertainment is a multiplatform content company working closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending stories and universes to new platforms, including comics, television, film, tabletop, and video games. We are home to critically acclaimed global franchises, including The Walking Dead and Invincible.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Skybound Entertainment is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, hair texture, or veteran status.
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