Senior Animator (View Model)

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Lead Animator and team to create industry-leading appealing animation and immersive, memorable, and seamless gameplay experiences
• Create detailed animations for weapons ensuring the movements feel natural, responsive, and immersive from the player's perspective
• Give characters unique personalities that embody the artistic and gameplay style and vision
• Constantly push animation quality higher
• Collaborate with character and tech art teams during all character creation phases
• Collaborate and iterate quickly with designers and other animators to ensure animations align with gameplay mechanics, timing, and feel
• Work in engine creating, implementing, tuning, and regularly testing animation assets with attention to detail
• Organize complicated sets of animation data and assets
• Help establish and refine the animation pipeline and tools
• Coordinate with all departments to achieve project goals

Requirements

• 5+ years game industry experience having shipped at least one AAA title
• Strong understanding of animation principles
• Strong keyframe and mocap clean-up animation skills
• Experience animating humanoid characters and creatures 
• Experience with animation systems in Unreal Engine 5, or equivalent (animation blueprints, graphs, and state machines, blend spaces, and montages)
• Expert with Maya or similar package
• Creative problem-solving at all stages of development
• Strong communication skills, a team player, and a positive attitude
• Able to provide objective feedback and take direction well
• Strong work ethic and self-motivated, able to maintain high quality of in-game animation and consistent progress without constant supervision
• Your reel must be included with your resume and showcase samples of realistic animation work.

Preferences

• 7+ years game industry experience
• Working knowledge of modeling, skinning, and rigging for games and how it pertains to animation
• Familiarity of development tools such as Perforce, JIRA, and Confluence