Animator

Job Description

Your Platform

Your Mission

As a Senior Animator, you will become part of a tight-knit team that prides itself on creating in-game and cinematic animations that are complex and believable. Working with the department lead, you will receive animation tasks that contribute to the gameplay goals or aesthetic needs of the project. Completing your work will require you to build relationships with many production disciplines, such as Design, Engineering, and Environment, as you all collaborate to achieve the best results for each game in both look and feel.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Use traditional animation fundamentals to craft game motions that range from stylized to hyper-realistic.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of camera animation and cinematic framing, as well as facial animation.
• Respond well to feedback and be willing to iterate multiple times to achieve the polish level we need to deliver AAA titles.
• Troubleshoot tool implementations and spearhead workflow improvements in order to increase the efficiency and creativity of the team.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• 5 years professional animation experience
• 2+ years of experience specifically as a game animator
• Knowledge of Cinematic and Motion Capture Editing and cleanup
• Strong animation fundamentals with a focus on human movement
• Ability to adapt to new tools and tech
• Expert animating in the Maya environment
• Strong problem-solving skills both technical and cross-department
• Ability to mentor Junior Animators
• Ability to think philosophically about character movement
• Extra Points:
• An understanding of character creation (modeling, texturing, and rigging) is a bonus.
• An interest in participating in live previs shoots to help clarify tone, choreography, and pacing for mocap actors.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmk31v-3-12-71-237-42 in your application.