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Senior Technical Animator, Hemel Hempstead
Client: Kinetic Games
Location: Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Views: 2
Posted: 04.06.2025
Expiry Date: 19.07.2025
Job Description:
About the Company:
Kinetic Games is a new video game development studio based in Southampton. We are a passionate team of developers using Unity to improve and expand the horror experience of Phasmophobia, available on Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
About the Role:
We seek an experienced Senior Technical Animator to join our team. You will be responsible for creating high-quality, efficient animation systems for characters, creatures, and environmental elements. Collaborating with artists, designers, and programmers, you will develop rigs, workflows, and implement animations in Unity to ensure they look great, are responsive, and perform well across platforms.
Responsibilities:
* Design, create, and maintain complex rigs for characters, creatures, cameras, and objects.
* Implement and maintain animation systems and state machines within Unity.
* Develop tools to improve animation pipelines and workflows.
* Collaborate with artists and programmers to troubleshoot rigging, skinning, and implementation issues.
* Work with the programming team to refine animation pipelines and systems.
* Optimize animations for performance across PC, VR, PSVR2, and consoles.
* Ensure animations meet standards for responsiveness and visual fidelity.
Requirements:
* Experience as a Technical Animator or similar role on at least one shipped Unity game.
* Expertise in rigging, skinning, and creating animation controls in software like Blender or Maya.
* Strong experience with Unity animation systems, including Animator Controllers and State Machines.
* Proficiency in C# and tool development.
* Understanding of real-time animation principles, IK systems, and retargeting.
* Problem-solving skills to balance quality and performance.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
* Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
* Passion for horror games and familiarity with Phasmophobia.
* Eligibility to work in the UK.
Nice To Have:
* Experience with VR animation challenges.
* Knowledge of motion matching, procedural, or physics-based animation.
* Experience with Unity DOTS or optimization techniques.
* Familiarity with facial animation and lip-sync pipelines.
* Experience with version control systems like Git, Perforce, and Plastic.
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