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Amazon Game Studios is seeking a Technical Artist to join our team in sunny Irvine, CA. This techartist will work with our animation and design teams to create flexible, future-proof rigging and weighting solutions for the characters and creatures of our upcoming massively multiplayer Lord of the Rings game.

Our team aspires to deliver "content, constantly". Every game system must support fast, parallel content creation to feed perpetually-hungry MMO players. The work you do in technical art will have a direct impact on this critical goal.

What You’ll Do

  • Work with our character artists, animators and designers to establish the gold standard for character performance.
  • Create elegant, multi-purpose rigs and rigging tools that integrate with our character pipeline
  • Invent techniques to alter and re-use existing model and animation content without artistic compromise
  • Work with our technical team to define and improve our character pipelines and set up our growing art team for success.
  • Keep a watchful eye on productivity and performance, always seeking to speed up asset creation and enable creativity

Basic Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in the games industry as a character technical artist, or equivalent work in a related field
  • 1+ shipped AAA game titles or equivalent work e.g. live product development
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
  • Online Portfolio demonstrating techart skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Excellent communication, collaboration, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
  • Excellent time management and work discipline.
  • Expert knowledge in major DCC software tools (Photoshop/Max/Maya/Houdini or equivalent)
  • Experience creating artist tools in MEL, C# or similar
  • Experience with cinematic pipelines
  • Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
  • Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation /Age