Character Artist
Blackbird Interactive
Technical Animator, 6-month Contract
Blackbird Interactive
contract
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$80,000 - CA$100,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Develop and maintain Maya and Unreal-based pipelines and tools to support animation, rigging, and content export workflows
- Collaborate with animators and riggers to define modular rig standards (including facial morphs, attachments, decay systems, and variant support)
- Build, refactor, and modernize existing pipelines and tools
- Partner with engineers and designers to ensure pipeline output integrates cleanly into the game engine, supports gameplay systems, and meets performance targets
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in technical art, technical animation, animation, or tools development for games
- Strong knowledge of rigging workflows
- Experience with, or demonstrable skill in, MetaHuman and Unreal Engine
- Familiarity with game-ready skeleton design, skinning, and animation scene structure
- Comfort working in Perforce-integrated pipelines and managing scene referencing/export workflows
- Basic animation skills (complemented by the animators on the project)
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
Benefits
- four-day work week
- flexible work arrangements
- creative environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
rigging workflowsanimationtools developmentgame-ready skeleton designskinninganimation scene structureMetaHumanUnreal Enginepipeline developmentcontent export workflows
Soft skills
strong communication skillscollaborative mindset
