Studio: Creative Assembly
Job Opening: Cinematic Animator
Location: Horsham, United Kingdom
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Produce feature quality, emotive real-world cinematic character performances for both human, and creatures
- Deliver full body performances, including facial emotion and lip sync using a combination of motion capture and key frame animation
- Take ownership of assets from creation to implementation into the game engine, using the inhouse cinematic tool set
- Have good organisational and time management skills, to ensure animations are delivered within the set task times
- Communicate and work interactively with key stake holders across the different disciplines within the cinematics team and the wider studio development teams
Qualifications & Skills:
- Autodesk Maya and Motion Builder experience
- Editing and manipulating motion capture data with key frame animation
- Accomplished key frame animation skills – demonstrating feature quality animations involving complex human facial emotions, body mechanics and lip-syncing
- In-engine cinematic experience, animation pipeline and processes experience
- Experience with camera narrative and the film making process
- Be agile, adaptable and be proactive problem-solving skills working within a fluid environment
- Work well within a team and be an active team player
Desirable:
- Animation supervisory experience
- Prior Experience with animation production planning – knowledge of Excel
- Performance capture acting and direction experience
- Experience working with Storyboard, Layout, 2D animation
- Formal art training
- A love of history, games and film
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