Studio: Magic Media
Job Opening: Senior Animator
Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Lead Animator and team to create industry-leading appealing animation and immersive, memorable, and seamless gameplay experiences
- Give characters unique personalities that embody the artistic and gameplay style and vision of the project
- Constantly push animation quality higher
- Collaborate with character and tech art teams during all character creation phases
- Collaborate and iterate quickly with designers and programmers from prototype to final
- Work in engine creating, implementing, tuning, and regularly testing animation assets with attention to detail
- Organize complicated sets of animation data and assets
- Help establish and refine animation pipeline and tools
- Coordinate with all departments to achieve project goals
Qualifications & Skills:
- Strong understanding of animation principles
- Experience animating humanoid characters and creatures
- Experience with animation systems in Unity.
- Creative problem-solving at all stages of development
- Strong communication skills, a team player, and a positive attitude
- Able to provide objective feedback and take direction well
- Strong work ethic and self-motivated, able to maintain the high quality of in-game animation and consistent progress without constant supervision
Desirable pluses:
- 7+ years of game industry experience
- Expert with Maya or similar package
- Working knowledge of modeling, skinning, and rigging for games and how it pertains to animation
- Familiarity with development tools such as Perforce, JIRA, and Confluence
