Lead Animator

Description

About Splash Damage  

• Substantial performance-related pay system on top of your basic compensation, along with enhanced pension contributions and our life assurance scheme.
• Bespoke VISA and relocation packages for you and your family, with support from our team throughout the whole process.
• Private Medical and Dental Cover for you and your family, along with a 24/7 digital GP service.
• Extensive Mental Health support, with Line Manager Mental Health training, a group of Mental Health First-Aiders, and on-site or remote counselling.
• Our bespoke Learning and Development course framework to help you grow as an employee, manager, and leader.
• Industry-leading fully paid 30 weeks maternity leave & 10 weeks paternity leave.

• Establish and drive animation quality standards and expectations across the team
• Work closely with programmers, artists and designers to implement animations as designed
• Test, review and iterate on animations to tune them to the highest quality
• Manage and develop the animation team by providing regular feedback, setting objectives, and providing mentoring

• Experience managing animation teams in a lead capacity through all major stages of commercial game development, with at least one released AAA title
• Demonstrable ability creating both realistic animations of humans, creatures and props
• High degree of proficiency using 3D animation software like 3ds Max or Maya
• Good working knowledge of game development workflows, engines (e.g. Unreal), processes and character pipelines for modelling, rigging and skinning
• Great communication skills to be able to convey and describe ideas efficiently both verbally and written
• A passion for making and playing multiplayer games, especially first and third person shooters

• Experience with technical animation, including rigging, skinning, and problem solving
• Experience with Motion Capture, Cinematics and Facial Animation