Cinematic Animator required at Creative Assembly

Cinematic Animator required at Creative Assembly

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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