Senior Technical Animator

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain rigging and animation pipelines; create high-quality rigs for characters, creatures, and props; collaborate with various departments; contribute to pipeline tools; handle cloth/hair simulation; provide clean/optimized assets; mentor and provide technical feedback.

• Act as an advisor: assist in guiding less experienced partners and animators, teaching them best practices in deformation, tool usage, and workflow consistency.

• Proactively debug, identify risks, and validate rigs in-game builds; support batch retargeting pipelines; create extensible deformation systems; build robust tools in Maya/MotionBuilder; ensure scalable, reusable solutions; understand rigging impact on combat readability, timing, and animation fidelity in melee action games.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience

• Proficient in rigging/skinning in Maya

• Strong knowledge of anatomy and deformation

• Experience in facial rigging

• Cloth/hair physics simulation

• Python scripting (Maya + MotionBuilder)

• Experience with MotionBuilder or similar DCCs

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Preferred: Shipped AAA title(s)

• Preferred: Modeling/animation experience

• Preferred: Familiarity with Houdini/Blender

🏝️ Benefits

• Full suite of benefits paid 100% by PCF

• 100% insurance coverage reimbursement (up to $1000 in services per year, including family or individual coverage)

• Comprehensive dental coverage, including dental care

• 4% RRSP matching contribution pre-tax, 100% vested from day one

• One week of paid leave during winter holidays

• 20 days of paid leave and 5 days of paid sick leave

• Free virtual health and mental wellness sessions included in the plan for members and dependents

• Personal development opportunities and the chance to work in a global environment

• Work within a creative team with individuals passionate about their work