Senior Level Cleanup Animator

Magic Media is looking for a Senior Level Cleanup Animator to join their team remotely on a project basis. The role involves refining motion capture data and rough animations to a high standard, ensuring production-ready quality while preserving original intent. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of animation experience, including supervising cleanup teams, and will collaborate with various artists to create immersive experiences for games. Proficiency in Maya and Motion Builder, strong communication, and excellent English skills are essential.

Must Have

• Work closely with the Lead Animator, internal team and clients to clean-up motion capture data to a high standard.
• Improve rough animation into final production-ready while preserving and accenting the actor’s intent, timing, and performance.
• Provide feedback, guidance, and mentorship to lower seniority clean-up artists.
• Ensure shots meet studio quality standards and production deadlines.
• Closely follow established pipelines, naming conventions, and file-management practices.
• Maintain continuity of animation quality throughout the tasks and project.
• Coordinate with producers and supervisors to achieve project goals.
• 5+ years of experience as an animator in a studio production pipeline.
• Previous experience on large-scale productions or long-form projects.
• Experience in supervising or leading clean-up teams.
• Strong understanding of animation principles.
• Experience animating humanoid characters and creatures.
• Strong experience with cleaning motion capture data.
• Creative problem solving for animation related tasks.
• Strong communication skills, a team player, and a positive attitude.
• Able to provide objective feedback and take direction well.
• Excellent English skills are a must – Spoken and written.
• Proficiency in industry standard software – Maya, Motion Builder.

Good to Have

• Experience working on a AAA game title or high end film production.
• Familiarity of various animation scripts, rigging, motion capture systems.
• Familiarity with communication tools such as Slack, JIRA, and Confluence.

Perks & Benefits

• Permanently remote position.
• An opportunity to experience different pipelines and styles and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects.
• Be part of an international group with offices worldwide.
• Career growth and development.
• Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
• Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities.
• Flexible working hours.
• An inclusive culture and open communication.

Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 15 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.

We’re currently seeking a Senior Level Cleanup Animator to help our team on their next adventure. The ideal candidate enjoys putting their skills and knowledge to use in a variety of styles. Your broader experience in cinematics, gaming and video production pipeline will help you work collaboratively with designers, concept artists, technical artists, and animators to create an immersive and epic experience.

What you will do:

– Work closely with the Lead Animator, internal team and clients to clean-up motion capture data to a high standard.

– Improve rough animation into final production-ready while preserving and accenting the actor’s intent, timing, and performance.

– Provide feedback, guidance, and mentorship to lower seniority clean-up artists.

– Ensure shots meet studio quality standards and production deadlines.

– Closely follow established pipelines, naming conventions, and file-management practices.

– Maintain continuity of animation quality throughout the tasks and project.

– Coordinate with producers and supervisors to achieve project goals.

Your Profile:

– 5+ years of experience as an animator in a studio production pipeline.

– Previous experience on large-scale productions or long-form projects.

– Experience in supervising or leading clean-up teams.

– Strong understanding of animation principles.

– Experience animating humanoid characters and creatures.

– Strong experience with cleaning motion capture data.

– Creative problem solving for animation related tasks.

– Strong communication skills, a team player, and a positive attitude.

– Able to provide objective feedback and take direction well.

– Excellent English skills are a must – Spoken and written.

– Proficiency in industry standard software – Maya, Motion Builder.

Desirable Pluses:

– Experience working on a AAA game title or high end film production.

– Familiarity of various animation scripts, rigging, motion capture systems.

– Familiarity with communication tools such as Slack, JIRA, and Confluence.

We Offer:

– Permanently remote position.

– An opportunity to experience different pipelines and styles and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects.

– Be part of an international group with offices worldwide.

– Career growth and development.

– Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

– Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities.

– Flexible working hours.

– An inclusive culture and open communication.

To apply, please submit your resume, portfolio, and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience.

At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on a console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.