Gameplay Animator

1 week ago

Montreal, Quebec, Canada Borderless Capital Full time

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.

ARTWhat 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 Gameplay Animators to join our team to work on our collaboration with Disney. You'll create original animation with a strong emphasis on style and appeal that's grounded in realistic world physics. A great understanding is needed of the fundamentals of animation and how they relate to game animation and the ability to implement animations in the Unreal 5 game engine using our animation blueprint system. A strong sense of gameplay feel and timing in relation to game design principles.

In this role, you will
  • Create character-specific animations such as gameplay animations in Unreal Engine using our Control Rig toolset
  • Take animation from initial concept through implementation in Unreal Engine 5 using our animation blueprint system
  • Drive collaboration across disciplines, including Production, Design, Technical Animation, Technical Design, and implementation to help drive the style and feel of best-in-class animation
  • Collaborate with leads in a dailies style critique environment, find optimal solutions, and address basic issues as they arise
  • Refine animations and gameplay feel as needed to get the best quality animation within the timeline
What we're looking for
  • A strong animation reel showing expertise in key-framed character and creature animation
  • Relevant experience in both gameplay and cinematic animation
  • Good instincts for realistic and stylized motions
  • Familiarity with Maya and Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline
  • Understanding of modeling, skinning, and rigging
  • Experience working with Motion Capture is a plus
  • Experience with working on hard surface or vehicle animation is a plus
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

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