Technical Animator (вакансія неактивна)

• Understanding of real-time skinning, IK, physical limitations and possibilities.
• Understanding of real-world kinematics and ability to replicate physical movement using a mix of simulation tools and baked skeletal animations.
• Ability to come up and utilize skinning tricks (e.g. folded shoulders, 2-bone ropes).
• Familiarity with mocap and hand crafted animations.
• Experience with human, exotic, and mechanical characters/objects.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in rigging, animation, skinning, weighting and physics.
• Excellent problem solving and time management skills.
• Self-direction and motivation.
• Desire to help drive the improvement of the game engine year-over-year.
• Able to read technical documentation in English.

• Experience working with procedural/physically-altered animation techniques.
• Experience with cinematics and facial animation.
• Proven experience in applying modern interactive character animation techniques such as blend-trees, HFSMs, IK, and partial-body animation.
• At least one shipped title on consoles.

• Work directly with animators, designers, modelers, and programmers to deliver excellent character movements, mechanics and cutscenes.
• Work with programmers to improve toolkit, systems, establish rigging standards.
• Create rigs and skinning for animated organic and mechanical objects.
• Proactively come up with ideas on how to improve animation pipeline.
• Troubleshoot complex problems as they arise and construct solutions to unforeseen design problems in a timely manner.
• Instructing colleagues and documenting necessary information.

4A Games is multi-cultural game development studio based in Kiev and Malta known for its atmospheric shooters Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light. The studio was established in Kiev, Ukraine in 2005 by game industry professionals with the aim of creating premium quality games for the latest generation consoles and PC gaming hardware. All our experience, talent and enthusiasm go into creating games with deep story, unique gameplay elements and highly detailed believable environments. In addition to that, our in-house developed 4A Engine is constantly evolving with the latest industry trends, and being highly scalable, delivers good performance on older devices while giving great looking visuals on high-end machines.
Currently at the heart of the company are over 100 talented designers, programmers, artists, sound specialists and writers from all over the world, with years of experience in software development and computer games in particular.