Studio: Amber Studio
Job Opening: Animation Director
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada / Hybrid
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Review animations, approve animations, assign revisions, troubleshoot animations. Ensure quality goals of animation.
- Ensure that the work of the team follows the quality standards, artistic direction and set deadlines.
- Motivate and develop the team members and act as a mentor in terms of technical/artistic aspects
- Work with department leads to create stylized design and performance and meet the vision of the project.
- Work with animators to develop animation cycles and behavior trees
- Build libraries of animation poses and cycles per character.
- Manage, mentor and assess technically and artistically a multi levels animation team in creating their key-frame animation.
- Work with game design to develop animation that respects the gameplay needs.
- Working with other animators to improve their animation through visual storytelling.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 10+ years of experience in game development and animation
- Experience animating characters and objects
- Software experience such as 3ds Max or Maya.
- Experience with various types of rigs
- Experience in Unity or Unreal
- Motion Builder/Spine would be a PLUS
- Rigging and modelling abilities are a PLUS
