Technical Artist – Animation

Job Description

The Animation Technical Artist plays a key role in bridging art and engineering to bring characters, creatures, and animated worlds to life. This role contributes to animation-driven R&D, builds tools and pipelines that empower animators, and ensures high-quality, performant character systems across the studio’s projects.

An Technical Animation Artist at Keywords Studios:

Collaboration & Support

• Work closely with animators, character artists, and gameplay engineers to ensure efficient workflows and high-fidelity animated content.
• Translate the technical requirements of the animation team into actionable solutions for engineering and pipeline teams.
• Diagnose and resolve complex animation-related issues including rig behavior, deformation quality, skeletal hierarchies, retargeting, and physics performance.

Rigging, Simulation & Animation Systems

• Design, build, and maintain modular, animator-friendly rigs for characters, creatures, props, facial animation, and mechanical assets.
• Implement and refine physics-based systems including ragdoll setups, cloth simulation, spline dynamics, secondary motion, and procedural animation solutions.
• Develop scalable animation blueprints, state machines, blend trees, and control rigs in Unreal or Unity.
• Integrate motion capture data, build retargeting pipelines, and ensure consistent motion quality across diverse character sets.

Tools, Pipelines & Optimisation

• Create and maintain tools, scripts, and automated pipelines that improve animation productivity and asset quality.
• Build validation tools to enforce naming conventions, skeleton standards, rig integrity, and performance budgets.
• Profile and optimise animation systems, rig performance, runtime solvers, and physics setups to work efficiently within hardware constraints.
• Participate in cross-discipline R&D to establish best practices for real-time deformation, procedural animation, and advanced simulation workflows.

Requirements

Programming & Scripting

• Experience with: Python, C#, MEL, PyMEL, MAXScript, Blueprints (Unreal), Editor Tools (Unity)
• Understanding of runtime animation systems, rig solvers, and physics components
• Familiarity with shader scripting (HLSL/GLSL) is a plus, particularly for deformation or skinning R&D

Skills

• Character & Creature Rigging
• Cloth / Hair / Ragdoll / Physics Setup
• Animation Pipeline Development
• Procedural Animation & Secondary Motion
• Performance Profiling & Optimisation
• Motion Capture Integration
• Tool & Workflow Development

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