Junior Animation Programmer
- Responsibilities
- Support and extend the existing animation framework and tools.
- Work closely with animators, artists, designers and programmers to improve the animation system and help them with its application and tuning.
- Stay up to date with recent developments and techniques in computer animation.
- Take part in design and development of exciting new features and integrate them with existing systems with guidance from senior engineers.
- Plan development in coordination with project management.
- Write clear, maintainable and robust code.
- Test, debug, profile, optimize and document your implementations.
- Requirements
- Strong interest in creating animation technology.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Solid skills in C++, and software engineering and debugging in general.
- Good 3D math background.
- Ability to learn and master a large existing code base.
- Ability to research and learn about new techniques and adapt them to project requirements.
- Good communication skills and ability to work effectively on shared projects with animators, artists, designers, testers, and other developers.
- Pluses
- Programming experience with animation code in a game development project.
- Familiarity with content generation tools such as Maya, 3dsMax etc.
- Experience working on game asset pipelines and tools.
- Experience with procedural animations and simulation.
- Experience with multi-threading.
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