01-31-2018, 03:52 AM
Get a job: Wargaming is hiring a Technical Animator
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgamedev.win/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/get-a-job-wargaming-is-hiring-a-technical-animator.jpg" width="300" height="300" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry!</p>
<p>Here is just one of the <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/jobs/">many, many positions</a> being advertised right now.</p>
<p><strong>Location: Chicago, Illinois</strong></p>
<p>Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore is a growing studio with more than 150 employees. Our environment is a combination of casual creativity and functional productivity, powered by the studio’s own, proprietary game engine.</p>
<p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Use content authoring and game engine tools to integrate character motions and procedural effects to create responsive, compelling, and attractive player- and AI-controlled character movement in a new title</li>
<li>Develop and maintain animation processes, rigs, pipelines, and animation systems</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, interdepartmental fluency.</li>
<li>Experience using in-game animation systems, with a thorough understanding of blend trees, IK, state machines, tagging, and scripting.</li>
<li>Experience with planning and implementing real-time animation systems, walk cycles, strafing, aiming, environmental interactions, etc.</li>
<li>Experience with 3DS Max, Maya, Motion Builder.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Desirable:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Experience with motion capture pipelines.</li>
<li>Proficiency with dynamic IK, physics (Havok) and rigging / animation for use with those systems.</li>
<li>Familiar with version control software.</li>
<li>Mel, Python, Lua experience.</li>
<li>Familiar with Modern Console animation systems.</li>
<li>Basic modeling and realistic animation skills.</li>
<li>Passion for videogames and game development.</li>
</ul>
<p>Interested? <a href="http://jobs.gamasutra.com/job/technical-animator-chicago-illinois-32616">Apply now</a>.</p>
<p>Whether you’re just starting out, looking for something new, or just seeing what’s out there, the Gamasutra Job Board is the place where game developers move ahead in their careers.</p>
<p>Gamasutra’s Job Board is the most diverse, most active, and most established board of its kind in the video game industry, serving companies of all sizes, from indie to triple-A.</p>
<p>Looking for a new job? <a href="http://jobs.gamasutra.com/search">Get started here</a>. Are you a recruiter looking for talent? <a href="http://employer.gamasutra.com/employerx/">Post jobs here</a>.</p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgamedev.win/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/get-a-job-wargaming-is-hiring-a-technical-animator.jpg" width="300" height="300" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry!</p>
<p>Here is just one of the <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/jobs/">many, many positions</a> being advertised right now.</p>
<p><strong>Location: Chicago, Illinois</strong></p>
<p>Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore is a growing studio with more than 150 employees. Our environment is a combination of casual creativity and functional productivity, powered by the studio’s own, proprietary game engine.</p>
<p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Use content authoring and game engine tools to integrate character motions and procedural effects to create responsive, compelling, and attractive player- and AI-controlled character movement in a new title</li>
<li>Develop and maintain animation processes, rigs, pipelines, and animation systems</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, interdepartmental fluency.</li>
<li>Experience using in-game animation systems, with a thorough understanding of blend trees, IK, state machines, tagging, and scripting.</li>
<li>Experience with planning and implementing real-time animation systems, walk cycles, strafing, aiming, environmental interactions, etc.</li>
<li>Experience with 3DS Max, Maya, Motion Builder.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Desirable:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Experience with motion capture pipelines.</li>
<li>Proficiency with dynamic IK, physics (Havok) and rigging / animation for use with those systems.</li>
<li>Familiar with version control software.</li>
<li>Mel, Python, Lua experience.</li>
<li>Familiar with Modern Console animation systems.</li>
<li>Basic modeling and realistic animation skills.</li>
<li>Passion for videogames and game development.</li>
</ul>
<p>Interested? <a href="http://jobs.gamasutra.com/job/technical-animator-chicago-illinois-32616">Apply now</a>.</p>
<p>Whether you’re just starting out, looking for something new, or just seeing what’s out there, the Gamasutra Job Board is the place where game developers move ahead in their careers.</p>
<p>Gamasutra’s Job Board is the most diverse, most active, and most established board of its kind in the video game industry, serving companies of all sizes, from indie to triple-A.</p>
<p>Looking for a new job? <a href="http://jobs.gamasutra.com/search">Get started here</a>. Are you a recruiter looking for talent? <a href="http://employer.gamasutra.com/employerx/">Post jobs here</a>.</p>
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