Studio: Gearbox Entertainment
Job Opening: Animator
Location: Frisco, Texas
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Create blockings, placeholders, and fully polished keyframe animations
- Clean and polish motion capture data with high fidelity
- Ensure animations delivered reach the project’s quality expectations
- Prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
- Participate in team planning meetings
- Actively contribute to team meetings, team post-mortems, and other team exercises
- Remain flexible regarding shifting production priorities
- Create high-quality cinematic animations
- Work in JIRA to provide status updates and show task progress
- Assist in motion capture direction or shoots
Qualifications & Skills:
- 3+ years of industry experience with a Resume and Demo Reel to review
- Autodesk Maya expertise
- Enthusiastic, positive, and team-oriented; must have the ability to interact and collaborate with all departments and disciplines
- Understanding of animation production techniques and processes
- Good technical knowledge of UE4 or other game engines
Desired:
- Experience with task-tracking software such as JIRA
- Experience with Character Rigging and Mel / Python Scripting (Maya)
- Experience with UE4 Blueprint
- Experience with 3DS Max
- Experience with version control systems (Perforce, Subversion, Git, etc.)
