Studio: Lighthouse Games
Job Opening: Lead Animator
Location: Royal Leamington Spa, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Grow, develop, and support a world-class animation department
- Collaboration across the studio for all things relating to animation
- Mentoring and providing feedback to the animation team
- Set goals and manage the development of the animation team
- Provide constructive feedback across the animation department and through personal one-to-one conversations
- Creating and implementing animation assets for the game
- Documenting and maintaining the animation pipeline
- Seek out and present new solutions to animation problem areas
- Working closely with the art leadership to maintain a high-quality standard across animation and all related departments
- Work with production to scope and implement animation work for the department
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years of industry experience
- An excellent portfolio/demo reel showing examples of character animation
- Excellent working knowledge of Maya, MotionBuilder, or any other industry-standard animation package
- Experience scoping and planning a successful animation pipeline
- Proven experience mentoring and growing an animation department
- Proven experience working with motion capture, keyframe animation, and procedural animation techniques
- Understanding of facial animation
- Experience with state machines
- A passion for video games and an understanding of current trends in relation to animation
- Great communication skills projecting a positive and approachable attitude
Desirable
- Previous experience leading an animation department
- Experience with Unreal Engine
- Experience with open-world games
- Passion for video game animation
