Technical Animation Director

Montreal

Offre publiée le 2025-11-07

Ubisoft Montréal

Overview

As a Technical Animation Director at Ubisoft Montréal , you’ll be at the heart of both the technological and artistic innovation of a unannounced AAA project. You’ll lead teams in building animation systems that are fluid, expressive, and high-performing, while ensuring alignment between creative vision and technical feasibility.

This role blends leadership, technical expertise, and a passion for animation. You’ll act as a key facilitator between animation, rigging, programming, and tools teams, making sure pipelines are robust, scalable, and tailored to the project’s ambitions.

What You’ll Do

  • Design, implement, and maintain a high-performance, scalable animation pipeline tailored to the project’s needs.
  • Collaborate with the tools team to develop or improve scripts in MotionBuilder (Python).
  • Work closely with animators and programmers to design and refine animation systems within the game engine.
  • Support the implementation of procedural animation systems and full-body IK with animation programmers.
  • Ensure animation systems support character customization requirements.
  • Partner with rigging artists to strike the right balance between artistic quality and technical performance.
  • Document processes and provide day-to-day support to technical animators and animation teams.

Qualifications

  • Education : Degree in 3D animation, computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience : 7 years of experience in animation within the video game industry, technical animation system development, or programming, including 3 years in a leadership role.
  • Technical Expertise : Strong command of game engines (Unity, Unreal) and 3D software (MotionBuilder, 3ds Max, Maya). Solid understanding of scripting languages (Python, C#, JavaScript, MaxScript), motion capture, and state machines.
  • Tools & Methodologies : Experience with bug tracking tools (Jira) and version control systems (Perforce).
  • Additional Information

    Charles-Antoine and Marie, our talent acquisition specialists, will analyze your application. Please send us your resume highlighting your education, experience and skills.

    About Us : Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences. We embrace a hybrid work model, though some roles are fully office-based and not eligible for hybrid work.

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