Studio: Splash Damage
Job Opening: Lead Animator
Location: Bromley, United Kingdom
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Establish and drive animation quality standards and expectations across the team
- Work closely with programmers, artists, and designers to implement animations as designed
- Test, review and iterate on animations to tune them to the highest quality
- Manage and develop the animation team by providing regular feedback, setting objectives, and providing mentoring
Qualifications & Skills:
- Experience managing animation teams in a lead capacity through all major stages of commercial game development, with at least one released AAA title
- Demonstrable ability to create realistic animations of humans, creatures, and props
- High degree of proficiency using 3D animation software like 3DS Max or Maya
- Good working knowledge of game development workflows, engines (e.g. Unreal), processes, and character pipelines for modeling, rigging, and skinning
- Great communication skills to be able to convey and describe ideas efficiently both verbally and in written
- A passion for making and playing multiplayer games, especially first and third-person shooters
- Experience with technical animation, including rigging, skinning, and problem-solving
- Experience with Motion Capture, Cinematics, and Facial Animation
