Manticore Games is Looking for Character Technical Artist

Manticore Games is a creator of a premier metaverse platform featuring live events, interactive entertainment, and more than 50,000 games and worlds to play and explore. The team was established by industry veterans from Electronic Arts, Blizzard, Respawn, Xfire, Roblox, Trion Worlds, Crystal Dynamics, and Zynga.

Currently, the team is seeking a motivated, and skilled Character Technical Artist. You will help build exciting stylized avatars and characters for a vast range of games and experiences spanning many themes and genres.

Responsibilities

Creating and maintaining animation rigs, tools, and workflows
Designing and setting up real-time character dynamics (cloth, hair, chains, etc)
Developing facial rigs using joints and pose assets
Working with the animation team to create artist-friendly rigs that satisfy animation and gameplay needs
Working with art teams to develop models that meet technical requirements
Assisting the animation team in troubleshooting setup and animation problems as they arise
Integrating artwork from internal and external sources to game systems including Blueprint Asset content, Data Assets, and Character Parts, for use in the game

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Requirements

Strong Maya rigging/setup skills
Understanding of human and animal anatomy
Python and MEL scripting proficiency
A minimum of 3 years of production experience in game development
Previous experience with UE4 or other AAA game engines
Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines such as art, design and engineering
High level of comfort and familiarity with version control and asset management solutions (Perforce, git, etc)

Also, the team is seeking more specialists:

1. Character Art Generalist

2. Lead Character Artist

3. Concept Environment Artist

4. Senior Environment Artist

5. Environment Artist

6. Environment Outsource Artist

7. Senior Game Designer

You may learn more and apply for this role on the 80LV Job Board.