About the Company
Gamexcite is an independent game studio. Our last release was Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown, and we are now working on a new Star Trek game. We're a small team: short decision paths, direct collaboration, and real ownership of your area.
Job description
The role
You'll stage and animate in-game dialogue scenes with MetaHumans in Unreal Engine 5. Lip sync and facial animation come from automated tools such as NVIDIA Audio2Face or JALI. Your job is to turn that into a believable performance: body language, gestures, idles, and custom animation where a scene needs it.
You'll also bring the ship to life - crew working at stations, using consoles and moving through rooms.
What you'll do
Stage and animate dialogue scenes; build reusable talk, gesture and idle sets, and create bespoke animation for key moments
Investigate, Integrate and polish output from facial animation and lip-sync systems, and help improve them
Set up crew paths and room animations with our internal tools
Identify props that need interaction animations and prepare them for animation work
Create new animations and improve existing ones
Implement animations in UE5 and fix transitions, repetitive idles and timing issues
Work closely with tech art and programming on the animation pipeline
Requirements
What you need
Character animation experience on shipped games, and a reel that shows it
Body mechanics, posing and timing; experience with dialogue or cinematic animation
Solid UE5 animation knowledge, including Sequencer and implementing into existing runtime systems
Experience with MetaHumans and their body and face Control Rigs, working non-destructively (no changes to skeleton hierarchies)
Maya as your main animation tool - we need Maya source files, and clean round-trips between Maya and Unreal
Retargeting experience
Git, and Unreal asset management including redirectors
Judgment on when reused assets or automated output are good enough and when a scene needs custom work
Did we spark your interest? We are looking forward to hearing from you! Please send us your application, including CV and letter of motivation to info@gamexcite.com