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The company provides complete outsourced game art, engineering, testing, audio and localization services for all Console, PC, Handheld and Mobile content, to many of the biggest names in games and interactive entertainment, working on thousands of titles including many of the best-selling titles of the past few years.\nKeywords Studios is comprised of many individual brands, all with something unique to offer our clients. The studios are integrated into the Group by Service Line and use the operating systems and tools deployed by those service lines to ensure people and projects can operate across studios and across geographies.\nKeywords Studios Asia is currently hiring for Singapore-based Technical Animators.\nRequirements\nWe are looking for enthusiastic and self-motivated Technical Animators to join our Singapore-based team working on an exciting, new, and unannounced AAA project.\nThis role focuses on implementing and iterating gameplay animation in-engine, working closely with design and engineering to ensure movement and interactive sequences feel responsive, believable, and integrate effectively with the wider gameplay systems.\nWhat you will do:\nImplement and iterate on gameplay animation across traversal, combat, and interactive sequences.\nSupport traversal systems including climbing, jumping, mantling, and general movement across the environment.\nWork closely with programmers and designers to ensure animation integrates effectively with gameplay systems.\nCreate and implement rapid in-game previs for interactive narrative and action sequences.\nSupport combat animation for both player characters and NPCs, including hand-to-hand, improvised weapons, throwing, and ranged actions.\nPrototype and iterate quickly to test movement, posing, timing, positioning, and camera requirements.\nTroubleshoot animation-related issues and help identify practical technical solutions.\nContribute to the overall quality and responsiveness of the gameplay experience.\nRequirements:\nProfessional experience in Technical Animation, Gameplay Animation, or a closely related role.\nExperience working with Unreal, Unity, or proprietary game engines.\nStrong understanding of real-time gameplay animation and how animation interacts with game systems.\nA good eye for movement, timing, posing, and animation quality.\nComfortable working closely with programmers, designers, and animators.\nAble to prototype, test, and iterate quickly in-engine.\nExperience contributing to at least one shipped game, ideally at AAA or high-quality production scale.\nNice to have:\nExperience with traversal, combat, or interactive narrative systems.\nFamiliarity with technical animation workflows such as animation graphs, state machines, rigging, or procedural animation.\nExperience working with motion capture or gameplay animation pipelines.\nBenefits\nOur Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Commitment: Keywords Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. 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