Unreal Character TD - Evil Eye Pictures : Job Details

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Founded in 2004, Evil Eye Pictures is a collaborative virtual studio bringing together some of the best content creators, innovators, and engineers from around the globe. The team is focused on creating immersive, compelling visuals and experiences for the evolving world of real-time, multi-platform entertainment.

Evil Eye was founded by artists to work on high-profile, special projects while maintaining an emphasis on people and a positive, fun work culture.

Unreal Character TD

Evil Eye Pictures is looking for an accomplished Character TD for an innovative project featuring high fidelity humans in Unreal Engine 5. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years professional experience in film, television and/or games, and a thorough understanding of animation pipelines and content creation in Unreal. A high level of technical knowledge combined with strong creative and visual instincts is critical.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with digital scan data (reduction, retopo, etc)
• Create stylized and realistic rigs with proper deformation and weighting
• Create character assets including control rigs in Unreal Editor
• Create character blend shape and character corrective shape assets
• Author animation blueprints in Unreal Editor
• Create range of motion assets for testing character rigs
• Create bespoke character models
• Collaborate closely with engineers, designing and implementing tools / workflows in Unreal Engine

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of working experience on a 5+ person team working with Unreal Engine in a professional environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience communicating with vendors and clients
• Proven experience creating realistic and compelling characters for games / film
• Experience with both forward and reverse kinematics rigging
• Expertise using DCCs such as Maya or Blender for character creation
• Experience creating custom tools for both Unreal Editor and DCC packages
• Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Flexibility to explore other tasks such as cloth simulation and physics, UI design and implementation, etc.

Good to have:

• Experience with Marvelous Designer or some other form of clothing creation tool
• Experience with Python, Mel, or C++ is a plus
• Understanding of PBR rendering and texture creation
• Knowledge of procedural modeling and rigging using Houdini, Blender, etc.
• Experience with MetaHuman or other high fidelity CG humans
• Experience using Substance: Painter - Designer - Modeler

This is a full time position. This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.

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CA Pay Transparency Information:

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren't limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

• Base Pay Range $100k - $140k