Animator

This team's mission is to build tools that help people feel connected, anytime, anywhere. Lifelike, interactive characters are an important part of this mission. As a Character Animator on the team, you’ll be working with a talented group of industry professionals leading the way in this emergent and creative space. If you’re excited about forging into new territory and pushing the boundaries of real-time character animation across a variety of products, this may be the place for you.

Responsibilities
• Create and push the craft of real-time and pre-rendered character animation.
• Create emotion and expressivity through facial animations.
• Create believable and visually appealing character animations/poses.
• Explore and troubleshoot humanoid character rigs, focusing on animation retargeting with an understanding of facial expressions to body mechanics
• Work with the Engineers, Tech Artists and Character Artists to develop and improve animation systems (facial, cinematic, move-tree, procedural) that will raise the bar within the required technical constraints.
• Work with multiple vendors, collaborating and giving feedback on technical and artistic solutions.
• Proactively identify areas in the production pipelines and execution to improve and actively participate in cross-functional settings to create solutions.
• Find solutions to technical challenges and improve animation methodology within pipelines

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- 4+ years of experience with realistic and stylized character animation in a professional setting
- Experience animating for a real time environment (Unity, Unreal or proprietary engine)
- Experience with geometry as it relates to facial rigging and movement
- Strong understanding of rigs and how to problem solve and troubleshoot issues related to rigging
- Knowledge with Maya
- Experience creating industry leading, key-frame animation for more than one industry, i.e., vfx, film, games or real-time applications (not just film).
- Experience working within distributed/remote team environment and/or animation vendors

- Proficiency in Motion Capture Animation in Motionbuilder, Unity and Unreal Engine.
- Real time animation experience.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.