Senior Character Technical Artist - World of Warcraft

Team Name:

World of Warcraft

Job Title:

Senior Character Technical Artist - World of Warcraft

Requisition ID:

R021198

Job Description:

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an individual who wants to help bring the creatures and characters of Azeroth to life by rigging and skinning them in resourceful, efficient ways while also providing secondary animation support for them as necessary. Help us push the development of the WoW rigging pipeline by working closely with and supporting the character, animation, and props teams, working on tech art tools, surfacing inventive solutions, researching new industry tech as it applies to rigging and physics, and problem solving. We encourage you to continue the core mission of the WoW Art team, which is crafting the highest quality handcrafted art in the industry. You can help us build a fun, engaging world for players.

The ideal person is passionate about building great rigs, creating energetic physics simulations, and working with great people. We are also looking for a candidate who is highly collaborative, self-motivated, with the insight to identify problems and the ability to tackle and solve them. Does that sound like you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

Day to day tasks

• Create rigs and rigging systems for characters, mounts, props, and creatures
• Work closely with character artists to make sure character models are created properly and are ready to be rigged
• Create physics simulations using both proprietary and non-proprietary tools for DCC and in-game
• Partner with animators and modelers to assist with various secondary animation setups
• Create, edit, and manage tools for animation and physics simulations
• Able provide insight and creative solutions or alternative approaches about rigs, animation, and secondary animations
• Communicate across departments

Your background

• High level of experience rigging and skinning in Maya
• Mid level of experience with physics simulations and secondary animation (Example nCloth, Havok, PhysX, or Chaos)
• Knowledge of 3D software (Example Maya or 3DS Max)
• Knowledge of a common programming language (Example Python, MEL, MaxScript, C#, C++, or Lua)
• Deep knowledge of rigging
• Ability to take on mentoring responsibilities
• Understanding of animation principles and fundamentals and how they apply to creating rigs
• Understanding of physics fundamentals and how they apply to both offline and in-engine simulations
• Great organization and communication skills

Send Us

• Resume
• A demo reel/website link

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification in the job posting. At Activision Blizzard we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, so we strongly encourage you to apply even if you don't believe you meet every single qualification outlined. We also do our best to ensure all applications received are responded to.

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work / life balance. We've worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiencesever. Join us!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $80,800.00 - $149,400.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.