About the Role
Strengthen co-development and technical partnerships between Tencent and its overseas investment and partner studios by providing senior expertise in AI-enabled asset production, optimization, and animation workflows.
Responsibilities
- Participate in co-development projects, providing senior expertise in AI-enabled asset production, asset performance optimisation, asset visual quality, skeleton design, rigging, and physics-based animation.
- Make AI-driven asset and animation improvement a central pillar of technical collaboration.
- Identify concrete opportunities across the full asset lifecycle and animation disciplines.
- Lead or contribute to proof-of-concept projects integrating AI tools with existing authoring tools, animation rigging environments, physics engines, and game engines.
- Evaluate the suitability, feasibility, and expected value of AI solutions for asset and animation challenges.
- Define measurable metrics for asset creation time, performance budgets, visual fidelity, rigging speed, animation quality, physics stability, and pipeline scalability.
- Work closely with various stakeholders to translate creative and production requirements into practical, measurable solutions focused on assets and animation.
- Drive the transition of successful AI experiments into daily production workflows.
- Collect user feedback, refine asset and animation pipelines, and document repeatable implementation approaches.
- Establish human-review and quality-control mechanisms for AI-assisted workflows.
- Lead technical investigations and solution designs for complex asset production and animation challenges.
- Bridge overseas studio requirements with Tencent’s internal AI capabilities, asset platforms, animation technology stacks, and subject-matter experts.
- Document reusable AI use cases, asset pipeline standards, rigging and physics best practices, performance guidelines, and evaluation methods.
- Share knowledge through workshops, technical reviews, and project retrospectives.
- Monitor trends in generative AI, neural rendering, procedural content generation, machine learning for deformation and physics, digital humans, and real-time graphics, assessing their practical value for AAA asset and animation production.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Graphics, Digital Media, Game Development, Art and Design, Animation, Software Engineering or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience will also be considered.
- At least 8 years of professional experience in technical art, animation technology or a closely related discipline, with significant exposure to AAA asset and animation pipelines.
- Experience operating as a Senior Technical Artist, Lead Technical Artist, Technical Art Director, Animation Pipeline Lead, Rigging Lead or equivalent senior role with a clear focus on assets and/or animation.
- Proven development experience on a recognised AAA game project, including at least one shipped AAA title where you were directly responsible for asset optimisation, rigging, or physics-animation workflows.
- Strong understanding of the complete AAA asset and animation lifecycle, from initial modelling and rigging, through version control and validation, to engine integration, performance profiling and runtime optimisation.
- Strong interest in generative AI, machine learning and intelligent automation, especially as applied to asset generation, asset optimisation, auto-rigging, motion synthesis, deformation prediction and physics simulation.
- Ability to identify high-value AI opportunities rooted in real asset and animation production challenges and progress them through proof-of-concept, workflow design, tool integration and production adoption.
- Strong experience with Unreal Engine or another major game engine, including real-time rendering, asset management, animation blueprints, physics assets and cross-platform performance constraints.
- Proficiency in Blender or Maya; working knowledge of Houdini is a plus.
- Experience with tools development or workflow automation using Python, C++, Blueprint or equivalent, particularly for asset processing, rigging automation or physics pipeline tools.
- Strong problem-solving, solution design and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to balance asset quality, animation expressiveness, engineering feasibility and production efficiency.
- Excellent English communication skills, able to lead technical discussions, conduct solution reviews, prepare documentation and collaborate effectively in an international environment.
- Willingness to work across regions and time zones and to travel to partner studios in Europe or other locations when required.
- Deep expertise in AAA asset production pipelines (characters, environments, props) with a strong emphasis on performance optimisation, memory budgets, LOD strategies and visual consistency.
- Deep expertise in asset visual quality and efficiency: material authoring, texture optimisation, shading models, draw call management and cross-platform asset validation.
- Deep expertise in skeleton design and character/creature rigging: hierarchical structures, joint placement, modular rig systems, and auto-rigging methods.
- Deep expertise in skinning and deformation: linear blend skinning, dual quaternion skinning, corrective blendshapes, muscle systems and deformation quality control.
- Deep expertise in physics-based animation: cloth, hair, rigid-body dynamics, ragdoll setups, secondary motion, and real-time physics constraints in engine.
Skills
- AI-enabled asset production
- Asset performance optimisation
- Asset visual quality
- Skeleton design
- Rigging
- Physics-based animation
- Generative AI
- Machine learning
- Intelligent automation
- Asset generation
- Asset optimisation
- Auto-rigging
- Motion synthesis
- Deformation prediction
- Physics simulation
- Unreal Engine
- Blender
- Maya
- Houdini
- Python
- C++
- Blueprint
- Tools development
- Workflow automation
- Problem-solving
- Solution design
- Stakeholder management
- English communication
Location
- Overseas
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Lead
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or above
About the Company
- Tencent Overseas IT has the mission to empower Tencent’s rapid global growth with future ready, global IT platforms, applications and services.
- We are chartered to lead the Overseas IT strategy, architecture, roadmap and execution.
- Satisfying our internal/external customers and becoming a world class global IT team are our top aspirations.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community.
- We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.
