Procedural Animation
Procedural animation produces motion from code and rules at runtime instead of from hand-keyed clips, so characters react to terrain, targets and physics.
Jobs asking for procedural animation want motion that is computed while the game runs. Typical pieces are inverse kinematics for foot placement and hand attachment, look-at and aim offsets, ragdoll and physical reactions, motion matching that picks poses from a database, and warping that bends an existing clip onto the geometry in front of the character. The work is as much systems engineering as it is animation: state machines, blend graphs, retargeting and the debugging that follows when a blend goes wrong.
That is why these postings usually pair an animation portfolio with engine knowledge, scripting and profiling. The quality bar is responsiveness, not a perfect clip in isolation, so a candidate is expected to judge timing, weight and interruption in-engine rather than in a playback window.
Hand-authored and captured performance is tagged as Motion Capture; procedural animation is what adapts that material at runtime.
Open positions for Procedural Animation (3)
Senior Technical Animator (contract)
