COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Ubisoft's 19,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players' lives with original and memorable gaming experiences.
Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come.
Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves.
If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Creating dynamic, visually stunning games is a top priority at Ubisoft Montreal. Game animation plays an important role in the visual experience.
As a studio with more than 4,000 employees, Ubisoft Montreal is always looking to innovate and give our players the best visual representation.
By controlling how game elements move and interact with each other, you'll be contributing to the game's technical development and artistic level.
As an Animation Programmer, you'll be responsible for building systems and tools that will help your colleagues create fun, impressive, and engaging worlds that are reactive and alive while meeting the highest quality standards.
What you'll do
- Work with different animation, programming, and mocap teams to understand their game animation needs, constraints, and intentions to design adapted solutions;
- Analyze existing animation features in the engine + design , develop , and maintain animation systems to properly understand technological limits and know what the engine can produce;
- Build animation systems that will be the basis for creating a living, dynamic world;
- Maintain existing animation systems unique to Ubisoft and optimize the animation engine capabilities for new projects;
- Program in a clear and structured manner in keeping with performance, memory, maintenance, compatibility, and portability requirements;
- Combine the technical and artistic sides of game design and program the animation systems that will make for the best visual representation ;
- Research and develop new animation techniques (ex. procedural, physics, etc.);
- Monitor the evolution of animation techniques and share your knowledge with various cross-functional teams across Ubisoft.
QUALIFICATIONS
What you bring
- At least 5 years of experience in C++ and C# experience + Visual Studio knowledge;
- Strong 3D math skills;
- Experience with animation techniques such as rigging, state machines, physics ragdolls, inverse kinematics (IK), compression, facial animation, etc.;
- Experience in the animation field to understand programming tools and how to improve them;
- A degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or related training);
- A good eye for detail to find even the smallest flaws in the system and optimize them.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Charles-Antoine and Jaimie, our talent acquisition specialists, will analyze your application. Please send usyour CV highlighting your education, experience and skills.
Please note that our positions are hybrid, but if you reside outside Quebec or Canada, relocation will be necessary. If you require a work permit, your eligibility will depend on your education and relevant work experience, as required by the government.
We look forward to reading your application !
Senior gameplay animator (viewmodel) - Far Cry project
You create animation systems for the player in First Person view, as well as the equivalent replication animation (3rd person). Animation and feel have to respect the visual language set by the Animation Director and respect game design constraints;. You export and integrate your animations followin...
Technical Art Director - UI [Far Cry Project]
Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. As a Technical Art Director (UI) at Ubi MTL, you have the highest-level understanding of what our tech can do, can't do, yet could...
Senior Gameplay Animation Programmer, LEGO Fortnite
We are looking for an experienced Senior Gameplay Animation Programmer for our LEGO Fortnite Animation Programming team. Troubleshoot animation-related issues and collaborate on solutions to common animation problems. Comfortable with common runtime animation techniques: animation state machines, ro...
Senior animation programmer
Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. As an Animation Programmer, you'll be responsible for building systems and tools that will help your colleagues create fun, impres...
Animatrice, animateur gameplay sénior (viewmodel) - Projet Far Cry
Vous créez des systèmes d'animation pour le joueur en vue à la première personne, ainsi que l'animation de réplication équivalente (troisième personne). L'animation et les sensations doivent respecter le langage visuel défini par la directrice, le directeur de l'animation et les contraintes du desig...
Senior gameplay programmer - (Assassin's Creed project)
Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. When you're a Gameplay Programmer at Ubi Montreal, you have direct influence over the quality of the game that will end up in the ...
Level Designer [Far Cry Project]
As a level designer at Ubisoft Montréal, you'll mix gameplay elements and guidelines to design unique places to explore and enticing environments to interact with.You'll help create the quests that will guide players through an immersive, memorable and rich adventure.You'll draw the blueprint of wha...
Animatrice, animateur gameplay sénior (viewmodel) - Projet Far Cry
Vous créez des systèmes d'animation pour le joueur en vue à la première personne, ainsi que l'animation de réplication équivalente (troisième personne). L'animation et les sensations doivent respecter le langage visuel défini par la directrice, le directeur de l'animation et les contrainte...
Art Team Lead - Object Bank [Far Cry Project]
As an Art Team Lead in a 3D production team at Ubi MTL, your main responsibilities will be to plan, organize, monitor and evaluate the work of your team and its impact on the project. ...
Directrice, Directeur technique animation [Projet Far Cry]
Ayant le plus haut niveau de connaissances quant à notre technologie et possédant une vue d'ensemble du projet, en tant que directrice ou directeur technique de l'animation à Ubi MTL, vous offrirez de l’expertise, des outils et du soutien afin de mener un jeu (et ses créatrices et créateurs) ve...