Senior Animator, Unannounced Super Fun Video Game
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Senior Animator creating expressive character performances and gameplay animations for a PvE co-op action game at Second Dinner. Fully remote role requiring independent problem solving and clear communication.
Responsibilities:
- Create high-quality character, gameplay, and combat animation.
- Bring personality, appeal, emotion, and charm to characters through performance and facial animation.
- Create responsive, readable, and satisfying gameplay animation that supports combat and player feedback.
- Rig, skin, and prepare assets for animation.
- Implement, iterate on, and polish animation directly in Unreal Engine.
- Work closely with Design and Engineering to improve gameplay feel, responsiveness, readability, and player experience.
- Coordinate with Character Art, Environment Art, and VFX to ensure assets integrate smoothly into the game.
- Identify bottlenecks and improve workflows through tooling, automation, technical solutions, or process improvements.
- Evaluate and leverage AI-assisted workflows when they meaningfully improve iteration speed, content creation, or production efficiency.
- Occasionally collaborate with external art partners to review deliverables, communicate feedback, and maintain quality standards.
- Own animation as a discipline from concept through final implementation.
Requirements:
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional animation work.
- Demonstrated strength in both character performance animation and gameplay animation.
- Strong understanding of character acting, facial expression, appeal, timing, and physicality.
- Strong understanding of gameplay readability, responsiveness, combat feel, and player feedback.
- Strong rigging skills.
- Experience implementing animation content in Unreal Engine.
- Comfort working directly in-engine to solve problems and iterate on content.
- The ability to independently own a discipline and make forward progress with minimal oversight.
- Strong written communication skills and comfort working in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
- The ability to discuss technical and creative tradeoffs with designers, engineers, artists, and external partners.
- Comfort learning unfamiliar tools, workflows, or disciplines when doing so benefits the project.
- Comfort using AI-assisted tools as part of a modern game development workflow.
Benefits:
- health benefits
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