Technical Character Animation Intern (R25720)
WHAT MAKES US EPIC?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
ART
What We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
TECHNICAL CHARACTER ANIMATION INTERN
What You'll Do
We are a new and growing team at Epic, aiming to build innovative new experiences and technology as part of our collaboration with Disney. As a Technical Character Art Intern, you will be joining a tightly-knit team of veterans from film and games to create pioneering real-time work and drive the quality bar within Epic and throughout the industry. If you eat challenges for breakfast, this is for you!
In this role, you will
- Create, assemble, and maintain real-time characters in Unreal Engine
- Work with Unreal Engine’s character creation and animation pipeline
- Collaborate with multiple teams from character artists, animators, and technical artists
What we're looking for
- Portfolio showcasing artistic and technical aptitude
- Knowledge of character workflow including modeling, texturing, rigging, and animation
- Experience integrating characters in Unreal Engine
- Skilled in 3D content creation programs like Maya, and Zbrush
- Highly motivated individual with a passion for problem-solving
- Basic blueprints and/or Python scripting is a plus
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
This internship has a flexible start date in 2025. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship. For more information about Epic’s Early Career Program, visit epicgames.com/earlycareers. This is going to be Epic!
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
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