Studio: Electronic Arts
Job Opening: Animation Director
Location: United States of America
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Determine and accomplish the vision and quality bar of all motion in the game.
- Guide the quality of animation balancing performance, quality, continuity, technical, scheduling and budgetary requirements
- Manage the work of our animation team
- Provide daily feedback and direction to the animation team
- Guide the evolution strategy of the animation pipeline, establish efficient animation procedures
Qualifications & Skills:
- A great eye for style and quality, combined with a deep technical skill set
- Experience in visual and technical innovation
- 8+ years of directing animation with excellent credentials on high-credibility AAA games
- Team leadership, people and mentoring skills
- You can inspire and lead teams to accomplish time and to budget
- You can guide a team to balance creative goals with the requirements of production
- You can direct actors and other motion capture talent
- Knowledge of common practices and an understanding of industry trends
- You can set up and work with animation blending trees and state machines
