Senior Animator
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Senior Animator creating cinematic game animations for Magic Media, a global gaming and media technology group. Animating humanoid characters, implementing Unreal assets, and collaborating across creative teams.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Lead Animator and team to create industry-leading, appealing animation that is immersive, memorable, and entertaining.
- Give characters unique personalities that embody the artistic style and vision of the project.
- Constantly push animation quality higher.
- Collaborate with character and art teams during all character creation phases.
- Collaborate and iterate quickly with designers and riggers from blocking stage to final.
- Work in engine creating, implementing, tuning, and regularly testing animation assets with attention to detail.
- Help establish and refine animation pipelines and tools.
- Coordinate with all departments to achieve project goals.
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of animation principles.
- Hands-on experience with Cascadeur.
- Expert with Maya.
- Experience animating humanoid characters with AA/AAA video game background.
- Experience with animation systems in Unreal.
- Experience with high-end keyframe animations for realistic human animation.
- Creative problem-solving at all stages of production.
- Strong communication skills, a team player, and a positive attitude.
- Able to provide objective feedback and take direction well.
- Strong work ethic and self-motivation, strong artistic vision, able to maintain the high quality of in-game animation and consistent progress without constant supervision.
- Excellent English skills - spoken and written.
- 7+ years of animation and cinematic industry experience (desirable plus).
- Working knowledge of modeling, skinning, and rigging for broadcast and how it pertains to animation (desirable plus).
- Familiarity with Slack, JIRA, and Confluence (desirable plus).
- Submit a resume, portfolio, and cover letter detailing relevant experience.
Benefits:
- Project based remote position with a possibility for long term engagement.
- An opportunity to hone 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.
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