Senior Animator

As a Senior Animator you will be 

• Creating key frame animation as well as working with motion capture data for in-game assets while following the given style guide of our exciting co-dev projects.
• Ensuring timely completion of animation commitments at the desired quality bar.
• Partnering with designers, programmers and other departments involved.
• Mentoring more junior members of the team
• Together with the Art Manager and Animation peers setting standards for the animation work, building animation systems
• Taking part in the production meetings representing the animation project team and reporting on the plans, achievements and difficulties
• Working in close collaboration throughout different departments to assure propriety implementation of animations within game engines.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in delivering quality player locomotion for AAA PC/Console FPS or TPS games.
•  At least 5 years of experience in game development with: 
  • animating lively characters and creatures
  • working with motion capture and keyframe animation
  • working in-engine and implementing animations into locomotion systems
  • Using Autodesk Maya
  • working in Unreal Engine 5/4
  • rigging and being able to build a new rig for a character from scratch
  • mentoring the less experienced members of the team
• English proficiency at least at B2 level

The ideal candidate will also have

• Experience with mGear 
• Scripting (MEL/Python) experience