Lead Animator

Description

As our Lead Animator you’ll be charged with leading our animation team, planning and managing our animation pipeline, as well as creating expressive, stylistic hand-keyed animation. You’ll have a pivotal role in bringing our game world to life by creating compelling narrative sequences where gameplay and storytelling meet. We’re looking for someone who is an effective communicator, a strong collaborator and has a strong desire for making heartfelt characters and story moments together with a small, dynamic team.

Requirements & Skills

3+ years experience in the industry
5+ years of experience with Maya
At least 1 published game
Strong keyframe animation skills
Experience with in-game animation systems
Able to self-manage and meet deadlines
Must have excellent communication and collaborative skills, coordinating and working with multiple departments to achieve set goals
Reel/website demonstrating your animation skills

Responsibilities

Produce in-game and cinematic animation content
Work with Creative Director and Art Director to establish and maintain a high quality bar for animation.
Build and maintain a modular animation library for Cinematic Designers to use a basis for our narrative sequences

Nice to Haves

Ability to produce quick storyboards
Passion for forward thinking games and [live action, non-superhero] films
1+ years of experience with Unity
Ability to rig characters in Maya

As a note, “experience” is often a moving target, and skills acquired from unexpected places can prove to be transferable. For enthusiastic applicants whose skill set is close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying whether or not you tick every box above. Applications from diverse backgrounds are encouraged.

We’d love to hear from you with a resume or portfolio.

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