Technical Characters & Animation Artist
GRIP Digital s.r.o.
Overview
Grip Studios is looking for a Technical Character & Animation Artist to help develop and optimize character and creature pipelines for our games. You’ll work closely with Animators, Tech Art, and Engineering to build rigging solutions, advanced animation systems, and character workflows that ensure high-quality, real-time performance in Unreal Engine 5. Your expertise in rigging, procedural animation, and real-time character tech will be instrumental in bringing life to our worlds.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in character rigging, animation tech, or technical art for AAA/AA games.
- Expertise in Unreal Engine 5, including Control Rig, animation Blueprints, and procedural animation.
- Strong rigging skills in Maya, Blender, or similar with experience in deformation and skinning.
- Experience with physics-based animation, cloth, and Chaos Physics.
- Python or Blueprint scripting for pipeline automation and tool development.
- Strong understanding of motion capture workflows and animation retargeting.
- Ability to optimize animation assets for open-world performance.
- Portfolio showcasing character rigs, animation systems, or technical character work in Unreal Engine.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain character rigging and skinning pipelines for humans and animals.
- Implement animation Blueprints, blend spaces, and state machines in Unreal Engine 5.
- Work with MetaHuman rigs and custom character setups.
- Optimize procedural animation solutions, including IK, motion warping, and runtime physics.
- Integrate physics-based character animation (ragdolls, cloth, Chaos Physics, muscle sims).
- Work with Tech Art and Engineering to ensure character animations run efficiently.
- Debug rigging, skinning, and animation-related performance issues.
- Create tools and scripts (Python, Blueprints) to improve animation workflows.
- Maintain best practices and documentation for character and animation pipelines.
About Company :
At Grip Studios, we:
🎮 Create innovative gaming experiences
💻 Collaborate with the best minds in game development
🚀 Build immersive worlds that inspire players globally
Type of collaboration
Hybrid
Location
Team name
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Types of contract
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Full Time
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