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Ubisoft Annecy
Founded in 1996, Ubisoft Annecy has developed many sagas, especially on Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed®, while focusing on multiplayer online and social aspects, and also on concrete game mandates such as Tom Clancy's: The Division 2® and Ghost Recon Wildlands. On top of our AAA production, we are working on innovation with a technological expertise hub around the Snowdrop engine pipeline, and Technology Group in collaboration with Ubisoft Montreal.
Located in one of the most dynamic regions of France, our Ubisoft studio is settled between lake and mountains, in the middle of Annecy, also known as the Venice of the Alps, 30 minutes away from Geneva International Airport. Directly under the responsibility of the Technical Director of the brand, you will be responsible for determining, preparing and adapting the tools that will be used during production on the Animation, Animation graph side.
You will define the projects and improvements to the existing pipeline (Cinematics, Ingame Animation, Motion Capture, Ragdoll, Facial, Rig ..)
Optimize the animation graph and architecture
Support the animation team on a daily basis to solve their technical problems and help them make decisions to optimize ingame animation graphs.
Produce tools, methods, training, processes and engine constraints documents for future reference
Coordinate and act as interlocutor between the animation team and the Technical and artistic innovation motive you, it will be what we expect to achieve the high level of quality programming team
Communicate regularly the technical constraints to the animation team
Be the technical point of contact for technical problems related to animations
Solid experience as Animation Technical Director (in the video game industry preferably)
Excellent knowledge of real-time animation systems and video games and/or pipeline development
Excellent knowledge of python
Fluent English is essential to carry out your missions (French is a plus)
Additional Information
All information will be treated as confidential in accordance with the Employment Equity Act.
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