Senior Cinematic Animator
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Senior Cinematic Animator, you will collaborate with programmers, designers, and animators to create content for cinematic features, bringing life to characters and creatures. You will take on significant ownership and responsibility, using your animation and cinematography skills to contribute to the project on multiple levels. The role requires creating dialogue-based and cinematic scenes, translating scripted scenes into cinematics, and working with the outsourcing team. You will also be required to follow and maintain pipelines and technical requirements while balancing quality with efficiency under deadlines.
Must have:
- Produce dialogue-based and cinematic scenes.
- Translate scripted scenes into cinematics.
- Create in-game previsualization.
- Follow and maintain pipelines and technical requirements.
- Validate cinematics in the game.
- Share knowledge to improve tools.
- Manage and give feedback to outsource animators.
- Balance quality with efficiency.
5 skills required
Job Details
At Avalanche Studios Group we are now crafting our next cutting-edge AAA game and we are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Cinematic Animator to join us in our Stockholm Studio!
The position
As a Senior Cinematic Animator you will be working with a talented team of programmers, designers and animators, to fully realize content for our cinematic features. The ideal candidate will have experience breathing life into characters and creatures. This position requires you to take on a considerable amount of ownership and responsibility. You are expected to bring your passion, highly developed animation and cinematography skills and creative problem solving to contribute to our project on many levels.
What you’ll do:
- Produce compelling dialogue-based and cinematic scenes using animation libraries.
- Reporting to the Animation Director, and working in collaboration with Designers and Writers to translate scripted scenes into cinematics, or to translate written dialogs into branching cinematics in the engine.
- Create in game previsualization to help realize direction.
- Follow and maintain pipelines and technical requirements.
- Validate the cinematics in the game to ensure that the integration of those scenes did not cause any conflicts with the rest of the game.
- Share knowledge and collaborate with technical Leads in order to improve the quality of the tools.
- Work closely with the outsourcing team to manage tasks and give feedback to outsource animators based on the direction.
- Balance quality with efficiency when working under tight deadlines.
Who you are:
- A highly skilled Animator who is passionate about animation and video games!
- Excellent knowledge of cinematography, staging and acting.
- Experience working with and creatively manipulating motion capture.
- Experience working with motion capture actors.
- Experience with keyframe animation on characters and creatures.
- Accomplished knowledge of current animation techniques and 3rd party animation Software (Maya and Motion Builder)
- Experience in game engine/editors.
- Excellent communication skills and abilities to work efficiently within a team.
- Well organized and able to lead projects with a mixed discipline team.
- Aware of new technologies and processes related to the industry.
Please attach a portfolio of your previous work (you can attach files or send us a link to your personal website, Reel or similar)!
Note: Research shows under-represented groups in the industry (especially women) might not apply to a job if they don’t check off every requirement. At Avalanche, we’re more about your drive to learn and interest in tackling challenges than what’s on your resume! So don’t stress if you don’t tick every box— shoot us your application anyway! Diverse opinions and different experiences are what make our teams so great, not itemized lists of qualifications.
The Stockholm location
Our Stockholm office is situated in Södermalm, the beating heart of the city’s game industry. It’s a physical representation of our games – the lush vegetation of Just Cause and theHunter: Call of the Wild meets corroded metal straight out of Mad Max. It has everything you need to make it your creative base camp.
Our values
At Avalanche Studios Group, we create worlds beyond limits. But that’s not exclusive to our games, so we’re committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. All Avalanchers have a shared responsibility to create an open work environment where everyone is treated equally and respectfully. Being part of our world is not contingent on your heritage, your gender, or sexual orientation. It’s all about your passion and creativity.
How to apply
To apply for this position, please register below and provide your CV in English. We review applications continuously. All further studio-related information is provided under a non-disclosure agreement.
At Avalanche Studios Group we're always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our passionate team, but please note that relocation assistance is not available for this role.
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About The Company
Avalanche Studios Group is a leading interactive entertainment company, offering a rich portfolio of games from its divisions Avalanche Studios, Expansive Worlds, and Systemic Reaction, including the Just Cause franchise, Rage 2, theHunter: Call of the Wild and Generation Zero.
Avalanche Studios Group is committed to being a truly inclusive and sustainable workplace that creates innovative games through the power of our people’s creativity. All of Avalanche Studios Group games are developed using the proprietary Apex engine, enabling vast open worlds with endless creative possibilities.
Learn more at www.avalanchestudios.com/
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