Senior Technical Animator

Fully remote from Canada with a preference for Montreal, Quebec, or BC.

Type: Full-time, Permanent

Sector: Games | Action-Adventure RPG | Unreal Engine

About the Studio

An ambitious independent game studio building an original third-person action-adventure RPG from the ground up. The game combines dynamic traversal, strategic combat, stealth, and a reactive living world, with a solid focus on player expression and high-quality animation.

The studio is small, highly collaborative, and focused on making the kind of games its team genuinely wants to play. This is an opportunity to join at a pivotal stage, help shape the animation pipeline from the ground up, and make a visible impact on a project with significant creative ambition.

About the Role

The studio is looking for a deeply hands-on Senior Technical Animator who can bridge the gap between animation, technology, and gameplay.

You'll be the person who gets into the work, builds and improves systems, integrates animations into Unreal Engine, and helps determine what additional animation support the project needs as it develops.

Working across traversal, interactions, weapons, procedural animation, and gameplay animation systems. You will be responsible for taking animation from DCC tools and mocap through to a polished, functional in-game result, working closely with engineers, technical artists, designers, and production.

The role will include maintaining and refining existing animation systems, implementing new functionality, and helping raise the quality of the project's animation through iteration and polish. You will also have the opportunity to help establish a small studio animation function, including coordinating external partners and identifying when additional support is needed from animators, riggers, character artists,



or other specialists.

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of experience in game development, with a strong focus on technical animation and gameplay animation
• Shipped experience with Unreal Engine, ideally across UE4 and/or UE5
• Deep knowledge of Unreal's animation systems, including Animation Blueprints, Blueprints, animation scripting, state machines, and gameplay implementation
• Hands-on experience with motion matching, IK, FK, procedural animation, and animation systems for gameplay
• Experience integrating traversal, interaction, combat, weapon, or character animation into a game engine
• Strong understanding of rigging, animation pipelines, and the relationship between DCC tools and in-engine implementation
• Comfortable working with Maya or comparable DCC packages
• Practical experience with mocap pipelines, including planning, directing, importing, processing, and integrating motion capture data
• Able to design and set up animation systems independently rather than relying on established studio pipelines
• Comfortable working autonomously in a small, distributed team and communicating progress clearly

Bonus Points For

• Experience working with professional optical motion capture systems, such as Vicon or similar
• Experience creating animation systems for parkour, climbing, mantling, locomotion, or other complex traversal mechanics
• Experience with procedural character animation, including hand placement, weapon handling, or interaction systems
• Experience working on third-person action-adventure, RPG, stealth, or combat-focused titles
• Experience with MetaHuman or comparable character technologies
• Familiarity with Python, C++, or other scripting and programming languages used in animation pipelines
• Experience coordinating external animation, mocap, rigging, or character art vendors