Senior Technical Animator – Quadrupeds, Unreal Engine

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🌐 Serbia, Kazakhstan, +1 more countries – Remote

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Xsolla

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Xsolla is a company specializing in game commerce solutions. It provides tools and services that empower video game developers to monetize, distribute, and fund their games, helping them to increase revenue at any stage of development. Xsolla offers a wide range of solutions such as customizable web shops, payment processing, fraud prevention, and social packages to enhance player engagement. With over 19 years of experience in the video game industry, Xsolla collaborates with developers and publishers globally to manage compliance, taxes, and operational complexities, allowing them to focus on connecting with their players. Their services are designed to work with popular game development platforms like Unity, Unreal, and Cocos Creator, supporting a wide array of local payment methods worldwide.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain animation systems for quadruped characters • Set up Animation Blueprints, State Machines, Blend Spaces, and Animation Layers • Create and configure IK/FK, Full Body IK, and procedural animation systems • Set up locomotion including walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, turns, starts/stops, and jumps • Configure blending, additive animations, sync groups, and transitions • Work with IK Rig / IK Retargeter and adapt animations between different skeletons • Work with motion capture data, cleanup, and retargeting • Create and maintain Control Rig tools • Fix foot sliding, popping, IK, and blending artifacts • Optimize Animation Blueprints, Control Rig, and skeletal animation systems • Develop and maintain animation systems for multiplayer projects • Work with networked locomotion, prediction, and reconciliation • Synchronize Montages and locomotion states in networked gameplay • Collaborate with animators, game designers, and programmers • Develop and improve the animation pipeline and internal tools

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in technical animation / gameplay animation • Hands-on experience with quadruped characters • Portfolio with quadruped animation examples — required • Strong knowledge of Unreal Engine: Animation Blueprints, Control Rig, IK Rig / Retargeter, Blend Spaces, State Machines • Solid understanding of animal biomechanics and quadruped locomotion • Experience with rigging, skinning, and skeleton setup • Experience with motion capture pipelines • Experience with Maya, MotionBuilder, or a similar DCC tool • Understanding of root motion, animation curves, notifies, montages, additive animation • Experience debugging and optimizing animation systems • Understanding of the differences between local and replicated character state • Understanding of which animation states/variables should be calculated locally versus driven by replicated gameplay state • Understanding of latency, desync, animation popping issues, and ways to minimize them • Conversational English

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited Flexible Time Off • Personalized career roadmap for each employee • Professional development through training and educational opportunities • Supportive environment prioritizing physical, mental, and emotional well-being • Background checks conducted after the final interview stage, where permitted by law • Confidential handling of applicant information • Privacy protection and non-distribution of personal data