Senior Animator

Description

inXile is looking for a passionate, experienced Senior Animator to collaborate with our other animators, designers and leads, to help maintain or develop workflows, and to create inspiring and convincing animation for our games.

• 5+ years of experience in a game production environment, on one or more shipped game titles
• A thorough understanding of animation pipelines and processes from concept to implementation
• Technical/rigging/scripting experience and knowledge
• Enjoys collaborating with design and art teams to deliver great gameplay and storytelling experiences
• Extensive experience animating realistic humans as well as bipedal and non-bipedal critters
• A good sense of weight and timing in your animation performances
• Excels at creating interactive animations that blend and combine to end in a fluid result
• Must be able to work with minimal direction, but be flexible with making edits and revisions based on gameplay requirements and animation reviews
• Maintains or exceeds a consistent level of productivity while meeting deadlines and producing high quality work
• Expected to mentor entry level Animators and must be able to assist them with their animations
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work within boundaries to creatively solve animation issues
• Strong understanding of classic animation principles and fundamental
• Must have a demo reel with examples of work

 Pluses:

• Experience with Xbox Kinect for the purposes of blocking in animation or other motion capture experience
• Unity experience
• Experience working on cutscenes/cinematics
• Shipped one or more AAA titles
• Avid gamer