Animator

Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium. We need animators to create awe-inspiring visual effects for our virtual reality experiences.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Director to help establish and maintain the animation style and feel.
• Create believable character and creature animation as well as prop animation.
• Plan shots with an understanding of story and character context.
• Remain current and up-to-date in animation techniques and Virtual Reality workflow.
• Collaborate with the rest of the team to find solutions to challenges that arise.
• Develop a working knowledge of necessary production tools.
• Consistently meet production goals as assigned by Production Management.

Requirements

• Acting and subtext!! Must have strong acting skills and solid physicality to create entertaining and emotionally driven believable performances, with clear timing, weight, emotional states and appeal.
• Must be able to tell a story with a strong sense of Personality (pantomime and dialogue).
• Able to show progress on a short time period (or as the production requires).
• Minimum of 2 years of animation experience in Film, Television, or Video Game production.
• Avid interest in the possibilities of Virtual Reality.
• Proficient with Maya and/or equivalent program.
• Self-motivated, excellent communicator, and a great team-player attitude.
• Solid and consistent time-management skills.
• Work well under pressure.