[Hiring] Technical Animator – Creature Specialist @Mob Entertainment
Mar 23, 2025 - Mob Entertainment is hiring a remote Technical Animator – Creature Specialist. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Animator with expertise in rigging and character development to join our tech art team. This role focuses on implementing dynamic rigs and systems to support creature and monster animations for cinematic and real-time gameplay. The ideal candidate will excel at rigging in Maya and will seamlessly transition those assets into Unreal Engine 5.5, leveraging its advanced animation tools to bring imaginative creatures and monsters to life.
- Rigging in Maya: Design and build medium complexity rigs for creatures and monster characters in Maya. Ensure optimized skinning practices and user functionality for the animation team.
- Dynamic Character Features: Develop systems for procedural animations, secondary motion, and physics-driven elements to enhance creature realism and interactivity.
- Unreal Implementation: Utilize basic Unreal animation features (animation blueprints, animation montages, control rig, blendspaces, anim notifies, etc.) to implement either cinematic or real-time character systems.
- Object Oriented Practices: Ensure good class structures are maintained, such as keeping all generic character behavior in a parent class and isolating unique behavior to subclasses or systems.
- Communication: Collaborate with Technical Animation Lead to ensure all projects are built in a unified pipeline, and take feedback from both the design and animation teams to ensure work is meeting technical needs while staying faithful to the character design.
- Advanced Animation Systems: Understand and imagine how more advanced Unreal systems (motion matching, stride warping, distance matching, etc.) might be applied.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional experience as a Technical Animator
- Expert level knowledge of Animation tooling within Maya, including rigging, skinning, blend shapes, with a strong portfolio showcasing a variety of rigs built from scratch.
- In-depth understanding of Unreal’s animation pipeline, including Control Rig, Animation Blueprints, Anim Notifies, State Machines, and Animation Montages.
- Basic programming understanding, including class hierarchies, functions, loops, and conditions.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple departments, meeting their needs while still staying within a structured technical framework.
- A demo reel or portfolio showcasing rigs, Unreal Engine animation setups, and dynamic character implementations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with creature or monster development
- Animation experience
- Facial mocap systems
- Python/Pymel or C++
- Understanding of animation principles in shaders
- Understanding of vector math
- Familiarity with anatomy, and how it applies in rigging
- Experience with hair or cloth simulation
- Any “generalist” game developer skills
Benefits
- Dynamic and interesting character and creature projects… this isn’t another humanoid animation system!
- Contribute to a growing studio that has captured the imagination of the internet with its lore and storytelling.
- Work remotely with a friendly and engaged group of coworkers who love what they do.
- Stay on top of the latest and greatest of what Unreal has to offer.
How to Apply
Please submit your resume, a link to your portfolio/demo reel (featuring rigs and Unreal Engine work), and a brief cover letter.
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Mar 23, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
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