Gameplay Engineer - Character Animation

(Full Time) Gameplay Engineer - Character Animation at Gym Class - by IRL Studios (United States)

Gameplay Engineer - Character Animation

Gym Class - by IRL Studios United States

Date Posted: 31 Oct, 2022

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

Salary Offered: $180000 — $210000 yearly

Job Type: Full Time

Experience Required: 6+ years

Remote Work: Yes

Vacancies: 1 available

Responsibilities

1. Create animations in Maya for Unity.
2. Create advanced character animations graphs in Unity using state machines and blend trees.
3. Troubleshoot and resolve Unity animation problems.
4. Create both realistic and expressive character animations.
5. Collaborate with teammates to achieve the desired aesthetic of the game. Follow references, concepts, and art direction, while also having the initiative to take the work further independently.
6. Validate your work on device (Oculus VR Headset in the Unity editor).
7. Optimization. Implement features that fit within performance budgets (CPU/Memory/Streaming, etc.)

Qualifications

1. 4-5 years experience creating advanced animations for game characters.
2. Strong portfolio showing abilities in creating high quality animations and systems for 3D character movement and interactions.
3. Strong knowledge of Maya and Unity.
4. Implementation experience in one or more of the following areas: inverse kinematics techniques, keyframe animation and forward kinematics, ragdoll and physics-based character animation, procedural animation techniques, data-driven motion synthesis (eg - motion matching, style transfer, motion warping, motion editing, multi-character animation, crowd modeling, etc), and other machine learning driven animation techniques.
5. Understanding of state machines, blend trees, low-level playback as related to animation. Familiarity with animation techniques like pose-space deformations and blend shapes.
6. Experience animating UI and props.
7. Strong knowledge of performance trade-offs and optimization for mobile VR (GPU and CPU impacts).
8. Proficient with C# scripting language.
9. Ability to repurpose, modify, and improve existing animation.
10. Strong organization and problem solving skills.
11. Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
12. Fluent in English.

Nice to Have Skills

1. Experience animating for virtual reality.
2. Experience with source control (Plastic, GIT, Perforce).
3. Experience with mocap recording and cleanup.
4. Knowledge of Unity FX.
5. Knowledge of vertex animations and shaders.
6. Knowledge of Python.
7. Proficiency in at least one Machine Learning library (Tensorflow, Torch, etc).

About Gym Class - by IRL Studios

Play basketball in virtual reality

Company Size: 6 - 10 People

Year Founded: 2021

Country: United States

Company Status: Actively Hiring