Animation Programmer

Job Reference: 13845
Short Skills:
Start Date/Length: Immediate/ Permanent
Salary: Competitive
Location: Budapest
Country: Hungry
Description:

Animation Programmer

Our client is always looking for the best talent and currently they need an Animation Programmer. If you have a passion for games and want to share that excitement and enthusiasm for creating great games this might be the position for you.

Role:

•Maintain and extend the development of our current character/creature animation system.

•Work where necessary to interface with projects and project systems, including AI and character control.

•Develop tools as necessary for use by project animation programmers and artists.

•Work with others to create our next generation animation system that includes motion-capture, facial

•Animation, lip-synch, and procedural animation tools and technologies.

•Write technical design and software design documentation.

Essential Skills:

•At least 6 years of programming experience with emphasis on character animation.

•Completion of at least 2 character based games.

•Strong math background.

•Excellent C/C++ programming skills.

•Strong 3D maths and computer graphics skills.

•Experience in IK/FK systems and Facial animation.

•Familiarity with compression schemes for animation data.

•Familiarity with large and dynamically extensible applications.

•Ability to work within a schedule.

•Ability to work well as part of a creative team.

•Self-motivated with a strong work ethic.

•Excellent oral and written communication skills.

•Master's or Bachelor's degree in Math or Computer Science, Software Engineering.

Additional Skills:

•Programming experience on consoles (including at least one of Sony PS2, Microsoft XBox or Nintendo Gamecube), or in film character animation.

•Experience with script languages.

•Familiarity with 3ds Max / Maya studios.

•Passionate about making games.