Technical Designer in Animation Epic Games Technical Designer Intermediate (2–5 years) Fortnite[...]

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character, and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

Position: Technical Designer

Type: Full-time

Location: Hybrid, England, United Kingdom

Experience Level: Intermediate (2–5 years)

Game Titles: Rocket League, Fortnite

About Company

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 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. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for various platforms and is embraced by content creators across multiple industries.

Introduction

Join a team of world-class environment, character, and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

Description

What You'll Do:

Epic Games is looking for a Technical Designer in Animation (TDiA) to collaborate with Disney on various animation systems. You will leverage your animation sense and technical understanding to design and create gameplay animation systems that facilitate appealing, high-quality character motion. You will serve as a primary contact for animation implementation issues, working closely with Animation, Design, and Engineering teams to ensure a smooth animation pipeline.

Requirements

What We're Looking For:

1. A strong animation sense with an understanding of realistic and stylized character motion.
2. Expertise with animation pipelines and tools such as Maya, MotionBuilder, and Unreal Engine using the Control Rig toolset.
3. Exceptional problem-solving skills and strong written communication.
4. Familiarity with gameplay animation tools, including blend trees and state machines; experience with Unreal Engine Animation Blueprints is a plus.
5. Experience with AAA game development, preferably on a large team using an established game engine; Unreal Engine experience is a plus.
6. Self-motivated with a strong work ethic and ability to work independently.
7. Coding knowledge or experience with C++ is a plus.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

1. Create animation behavior tools/techniques that allow for complex movement systems.
2. Design and implement animation state machines/behaviors and runtime solutions.
3. Collaborate with Animation, Design, and Engineering departments to troubleshoot and solve animation implementation issues.
4. Work with animation leadership to maintain the style and quality of animations.
5. Identify opportunities to improve the animation pipeline/workflow and provide solutions for technical animation problems.

Benefits

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

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 building award-winning games or crafting engine technology, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users.

Epic Games values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept unsolicited resumes or approaches from unauthorized third parties. We will not pay any fees to unauthorized third parties.