Technical Animator

Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore is a growing studio with more than 150 employees.  Our environment is a combination of casual creativity and functional productivity, powered by the studio’s own, proprietary game engine.

Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore is looking for a stellar Technical Animator to join the team.

Responsibilities:

• Use content authoring and game engine tools to integrate character motions and procedural effects to create responsive, compelling, and attractive player- and AI-controlled character movement in a new title
• Develop and maintain animation processes, rigs, pipelines, and animation systems

Requirements:

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, interdepartmental fluency.
• Experience using in-game animation systems, with a thorough understanding of blend trees, IK, state machines, tagging, and scripting.
• Experience with planning and implementing real time animation systems, walk cycles, strafing, aiming, environmental interactions, etc.
• Experience with 3DS max, Maya, Motion Builder.

Desirable:

• Experience with motion capture pipelines.
• Proficiency with dynamic IK, physics (Havok) and rigging / animation for use with those systems.
• Familiar with version control software.
• Mel, Python, Lua experience.
• Familiar with Modern Console animation systems.
• Basic modeling and realistic animation skills.
• Passion for videogames and game development.