Studio: Jam City
Job Opening: Lead Animator
Location: Carlsbad, California, USA
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Oversee and be directly involved in animation and asset creation.
- Produce and execute final quality results based on your own and your colleagues’ concepts.
- Take ownership.
- Think like a player and influence the direction that our games take.
- Design creative, clear, and playful animations for our games.
- Ensure the consistency of our existing animation style and develop it further.
- Collaborate with multiple disciplines to find design and implementation solutions for animations and visual effects.
- Lead and mentor the animation team to meet deadlines and deliver quality animations.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Expertise in Autodesk Animation software (Maya, 3ds Max).
- Strong proficiency in Creative Cloud Suite (Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator) and Version Control Systems.
- Experience with 3d character setup and animation rig creation.
- A solid understanding of the abilities and limitations of the Unity game engine.
- Strong game animation skills (in-game, effects, characters, UI).
- Ability to create still and animated assets for mobile games, following our existing brand designs, and implement them in Unity.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills, teamwork-oriented worker.
- Experience in working together with programmers and Technical Artists to find design and implementation solutions.
- Great sense for quality and acute attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to take and deliver constructive feedback.
- Accustomed to working in a deadline-driven live game development environment.
- Passionate about mobile games and technology.
- Excellent English communication skills.
- Must include a portfolio of work demonstrating your breadth of skill and project contributions.
Nice to have:
- Experience with motion graphics/UI animation.
- Experience creating UI and UX for mobile games.
- Video editing skills.
- Technical background in developing scripts, Photoshop actions, and other automation tools necessary for art implementation and optimization.
- Thorough understanding of current mobile games market and art trends.
- Previous experience with task organizing tools such as Jira and Trello.
- Experience working with remote contract teams.
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