Your role in the Kingdom

As the Senior Technical Animator you will be responsible for all character and prop related set-ups (including skinning) required for the animation team. You will also contribute providing tools and improving pipelines and workflows that will maximize efficiency. You have experience crafting advanced skeletons and control rigs for characters (bipedal and quadrupedal) and custom rigs/set-ups for props. An in depth knowledge of skinning characters and creating set-ups required for secondary motion is also necessary.

Skills to Create Thrills:

• You have an excellent understanding of character rigging & deep understanding of animation pipeline development
• Solid knowledge of Maya
• Flexible, proactive and collaborative approach to technical problem solving in a multi-discipline team
• Ability to break down the animation needs for a character, and to plan out movements sets and blends required for the game
• Ability to plan work and tools so that they meet the technical constraints, optimization and implementation that game animation requires
• Excellent skinning skills and a strong understanding of human motion and anatomy
• Advanced scripting skills (preferably Python)
• You released one or more titles working as a Technical Animator
• Great communication and interpersonal skills, plus experience working in a team environment
• You are passionate about games and you want to push animation in video-games to new levels of believability
• Ability to deliver content to engine and bug-fix and optimize any animation delivery or rig issues

Bonus Points

• Strong knowledge of Unity
• Experience working with ragdoll set-ups (ideally within Unity)
• Experience building high and low res facial rigs
• Basic animation skills
• Experience of SDK plugin development
• Experience working with procedural, additive, layered animation and animation state trees
• Experience working with Motion capture
• You are an expert in agile/scrum development methodology and prototyping
• A keen gamer who keeps up to date with industry related developments

Making the world playful
When it comes to interactive mobile entertainment, we're pretty proud to be number one. We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions everyday through games like Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people that share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. No matter where you’re from, it’s all about what we can achieve together when creating truly magical moments for all our players. That’s why we hire all sorts of talent - because a great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Make your mark
We're fuelled by a determination to be better tomorrow than we are today. It's an exciting time to join King. As we dream bigger, you'll play an important role in redefining the world of games. Through our creativity and innovation, we'll make the world playful and delight billions of people across the world.

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