Studio: Wētā FX
Job Opening: Senior Animator
Location: Melbourne, Australia or Wellington, New Zealand
Type: Full-Time
Qualifications & Skills:
- Five years of animation experience in Visual Effects Animation on feature films.
- Strong keyframe Creature Animation skills.
- Strong Maya experience.
- High-level understanding and execution of mechanics, timing, physics, composition, cameras, and staging.
- Can hit strong key poses and string them together into solid blocking.
- Has a strong eye for realistic performance and physics.
- Experience working with motion capture in animation production.
- Experience with Facial animation.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to have:
- Previs experience.
- A solid foundation in creating realistic facial performances using FACs-based facial animation rigs.
