Lead Digital Animator

Description

Lead Digital Animator - Virtual Production

Looking for a talented and experienced Lead Animator to join our exciting new Virtual Production studio utilizing motion capture, game engines, and virtual reality to design the future of filmmaking.

Responsibilities:

• Work on set, creating and tweaking animations with the Director for live implementation utilizing Virtual Production pipeline
• Establish character blocking, camera positioning and animate camera movement.
• Animate props, vehicles, characters and creatures (stylized and realistic)
• Clean up and accentuate mocap and previz animation for final
• Create high quality animation content in Maya and implement correctly in Unreal Engine
• Create sequences of shots from storyboards and/or script pages to enhance story
• Possess a strong sense of composition, color, and animation timing.
• Create scene lighting that complements the shot and matches the sequence.
• Understand cinematic language, camera terminology and have the ability to use motion blur, depth of field and other effects, to create realism.
• Adapt quickly and accept change – often have to toss out ideas and start fresh.
• Maintain high consistent standard of quality and speed.

Qualifications:

• Previous experience animating in games or feature film
• Deep knowledge of Maya: layers, trax editor, mocap tools
• In engine animation layering knowledge
• Familiar with some kind of animation system: unreal, morpheme/euphoria, unity, etc.
• Solid understanding of animation production pipelines
• Good communication skills to enable you to work well in a team and take direction from clients, directors etc.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems independently
• Desire to work in a new fluid animation pipeline