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Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.\nBeing Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.\nART\nWhat We Do\nPush your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.\nWhat You'll Do\nEpic Games is searching for a Lead Technical Animator with a passion for expressive character movement to join our team. In this talented team of veteran and emerging artists, you’ll collaborate across teams and contribute directly to Fortnite and other initiatives as part of our collaboration with Disney. Joining this team means you’re motivated to seek solutions to problems and work with other disciplines to make positive changes to workflows, tools, and technologies that directly impact cosmetic assets and gameplay.\nIn this role, you will\nWork closely with technical animators, Leads, Directors, and Outsource Managers on the team to ensure assets are set up for success in the different stages of production\nCommunicate and drive alignment around strategy for technical animation and adjacent cosmetics teams\nWork with production to schedule, prioritize, and delegate assets for the team, both internal and vendor\nWork closely with animators, modelers, and designers to ensure a smooth development pipeline that delivers high-quality assets\nAssisting with pipeline tools and working with engine and project leads on the continuous improvement of those engine tools\nMentor rigging-focused technical animators\nRigging characters, weapons, creatures, and vehicles\nSetting up assets in Unreal Engine 5; including control rigs, cloth, physics, and blueprints\nMaintain detailed documentation, video reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support internal and external artists\nWhat we're looking for\nExtensive experience rigging characters in Maya and/or Unreal Engine\nA portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters, bipeds, and creatures, both body and faces\nAttention to aesthetic detail, especially with regard to character deformation and physics movement\nFamiliarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline\nA positive individual with strong written communication and teamwork skills \nExceptional problem-solver\nControl Rig experience a plus\nPython programming is a plus\nYou’re user-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do\nThis role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA, NYC, & WA).\nPay Transparency Information\nThe expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).\nNew York City Base Pay Range\n$189,482—$277,906 USD\nCalifornia Base Pay Range\n$166,744—$244,558 USD\nWashington Base Pay Range\n$151,585—$222,324 USD\nABOUT US\nEpic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. 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Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.\nNote to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. 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