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What makes us Epic?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

Art at Epic

What we do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic.

What you’ll do

Epic Games is searching for Character Animators, ranging from entry level to experienced seniors, to join our team working on Twinmotion and various other projects.

A successful candidate should have a great understanding of the fundamentals of animation and how they relate to game animation and the ability to implement animations in the Unreal 4 editor using our animation blueprint system.

In this role, you will...

  • Create or retake character real life animations for architecture in Maya using our ART tools set
  • Take animation from initial concept through to implementation in Unreal Engine 4 using our animation blueprint system
  • Work with the team to help drive an hyper realistic animation style
  • Give strong guidelines to outsourcers and manage incoming data

What we’re looking for

  • You have an animation reel showing key-framed character
  • Strong experience with Maya and gameplay systems
  • Good instincts for realistic motions
  • Strong communication and teamwork skills
  • Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 4 art pipeline
  • Related skills; such as modeling, skinning, rigging
  • Experience working with mocap data
  • Experience having shipped at least one title

You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.