Lead Technical Animator / Technical Director
Facial
Posted on 7/19/2023
INACTIVE
2K

1,001-5,000 employees

Sports-based game development studio
Company Overview
2K’s mission is to enable all gamers to build, connect, escape and dream big with their wide array of interactive entertainment for video game consoles, personal computers, and mobile devices. The company is committed to maintaining and developing some of the most creative, respective and premium games in today’s gaming market.

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Founded

2005

Headquarters

Novato, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

3%
Locations
Montreal, QC, Canada
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Communications
Animation
CategoriesNew
Art, Graphics & Animation
Requirements
  • 7+ years industry experience
  • Experienced with Facial pipelines/rigging
  • Great experience in Solving and Motion Editing for Facial
  • Experience with Unreal and Metahuman
  • Excellent problem solver/ technical fire fighter
  • Highly motivated and proactive
  • A positive attitude toward challenges
  • Good communicator at the technical level
  • Education in the field of 3D Animation, Motion Capture, or Film
  • Proficient with Maya and Motion Builder and different facial packages
  • Deep knowledge of Mocap tools
  • Knowledge of scripting/ code system: Python, Mel, C++, etc
Responsibilities
  • Build a Facial Pipeline
  • Build a Facial team for post processing and Realtime
  • Work with Dynamixyz
  • Work with Dev team to support facial expertise
  • Provide rigging solution per pipeline
  • Help support other animators (training and debugging)
  • Learn how the 2K Mocap pipeline works
  • Be able to work with any software package using the most efficient practices
  • Work with the Mocap team to prototype new useful features/tools and processes
  • Ability to create high quality facial animation
  • Working with the postproduction team on other pipeline tasks such as Processing Mocap Data, Solving, QA, Editing Facial Capture Video, Virtual Camera Animation, etc
  • Daily communication with the production manager and production team
  • Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience developing animation and Mocap tools is a plus
  • Knowledge of solving pipelines
  • Hardware experience (mocap, scan, VR, references Cameras, and more)