Technical Animator
Paradox Tectonic seeks a versatile and creative Technical Animator to join the Life by You team. You will work alongside the Art Director, fellow artists, and engineers to help us bring our world and humans to life.
We're looking for an experienced, self-starting tech animator with experience working with motion capture data. You will help bring our characters to life, elevate the visuals and find ways to improve workflow efficiency. In addition, our ideal candidate brings with them a deep passion for making games and solving challenging problems.
Responsibilities
Use keyframe and motion capture techniques to bring characters to life.
Support and implement animation content and fine-tune parameters for gameplay.
Work with the game engine in setting up character assets.
Help with skin weights for characters and assets on preexisting and new skeletons.
Work with our technical artist to define and improve the animation pipeline.
Work with cross-functional teams to help take animation assets through the art and game pipeline.
Collaborate with the art and engineering team to develop animation rigs and pipelines for characters, vehicles, and props.
Required Qualifications
BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
At least three years of Unity game development experience with a good working knowledge of Unity editor scripting/tool development.
Ability to work well in a fluid, changing environment as creative challenges evolve.
Demo or portfolio of past work or samples.
A strong understanding of how to create animation for real-time games.
Experience animating assets on at least one AAA title from beginning to end or have shipped AAA PC or console titles in an animator position.
Expert-level proficiency with Autodesk Maya
Experience working with mocap and keyframed animation techniques.
Understand topology and anatomy and collaborate with artists to get good deformations.
Self-motivated, structured, proactive, and detail-oriented.
Strong communication and organizational skills.
Good eye and attention to details.
Experience in the following is a plus
MotionBuilder experience.
Acting for animation.
Utilizing a motion capture suit.
Scope: Full-time and permanent
Salary Range: 120,000-140,000 USD
Salary range is dependent on experience level, additional skills and location. Candidates must already be eligible to work in the United States.
Can be remote with in the United States but you are expected to keep overlapping work hours with a team situated in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Department
- Tectonic Studio
- Role
- Technical Artist
- Locations
- Berkeley, USA
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Berkeley, USA
Working at Paradox
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Continuous personal development
To make and sell fantastic games we focus on continuous professional development of our employees. Education, career development and impact on decision-making are part and parcel of this endeavor.
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Freedom & Responsibility
Your contribution will count and you’ll see direct results of your input in our final products.We provide you with freedom in how to tackle ambitious goals and we strive to work in small autonomous teams where you have an impact on the decisions taken. However, we also expect every employee to be responsible for their work and the decisions they make.
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Explore, bond and be well
Our culture centers around the games we make and the bonds we form between the people who make and play them. In our experience, a healthy dose of nerdiness is often central in this, no matter what form it takes.
We encourage employees and teams to explore their nerdiness and connect with one another within and (if they wish) outside the company - be it in our strong board game and TTRPG community, over painting miniatures, in book circles, over karaoke, at our social gatherings and of course over video games. How far down the rabbit hole you go is up to you, nothing is mandatory.
It goes without saying that you get full access to our Steam catalog and the chance the play games that are still in development.
We strive for a good work-life balance for all employees and prioritize their personal well-being.
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Masters of our fate
We have stable long-term owners with skin in the game, decision making close to the games and the players and are stably self-financed, without debt. That gives us full ownership and control of our development. Our success or failure is up to us.
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Compensation
We offer competitive monthly salary and salary revision once per year with participation in our company wide profit share program.
You will be given 5+1 weeks of paid vacation per year. For international hires, we will provide relocation assistance (Visa application, Initial Home Finding, Settling in Service, and your flight).We offer flexible work hours, an open office environment and we encourage sharing and learning from each other.
It goes without saying that you get full access to our Steam catalog and the chance the play games that are still in development.
Our Culture
Paradox’s workplace culture has been shaped by our players, our knowledge of what they want and expect from us, and the lessons we’ve learned in over two decades of operation.
In our work, we place great emphasis on the value we create for our players, the trust we place in one another, our goal of making each other better, and on proactively solving the tasks and problems we face within an industry and a company that keep on changing.
We focus less on job titles and more on the ideas, skills and attitude that every member of our small, autonomous teams brings to the table.
About Paradox Interactive
Today, Paradox consists of both publishing and internal game development. We have a broad portfolio of games and own the most important brands, including Stellaris, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, Cities: Skylines, Prison Architect, Victoria, Age of Wonders and the World of Darkness catalog of brands.
Since 2004, the company has published its games all over the world, initially through physical distribution but primarily in digital channels after 2006. Paradox games are developed primarily for PC and console platforms, but the company also releases games on mobile. The largest markets today include the US, UK, China, Germany, France and Scandinavia. In total, Paradox games have over five million players each month.
Technical Animator
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