Sr. 3D Animator (games)

  • Full-time

Job Description

You Are: 

  • Educated: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related CG field 

  • Experienced: 5+ years in the game industry, worked on titles on multiple platforms (mobile a plus)

  • Visionary: Ability to envision extensible and efficient methods for production and improvements to everything from Avatar, Clothing, Hair, and skin shading. 

  • Knowledgeable: Strong understanding of modern real-time engines, variety of art tools (including Maya and Blender), runtime animation, complex deformation systems and cloth simulation

  • Skilled: Demonstrates an expertise in human motion, squash and stretch, timing, and secondary motion.

  • Technical: Can build rigs, morph targets, do skin weighting, and solvers for hair and cloth.

  • Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving existing issues and driving new tools/functionality for our developers 

  • Driven: A desire to learn, explore and provide value in a fast-paced, fluid environment  

  • Team-oriented: Solid communication and collaboration skills 

You Will: 

  • You will be creating benchmark animations suitable for avatars that go beyond what is currently available on the platform.

  • Work with engineers to solve technical issues like blended animations.

  • Create custom rigs for set-piece animations.

  • Help develop and improve animation tools and pipelines within the Studio.

  • Author specs for new features and improvements to the animation system

  • Investigate and provide feedback on our tools and pipelines from an artist and game developer perspective

  • Document work and pipelines and create user-friendly tutorials.

  • Give feedback to any outsourced animations.

  • Be the content coordinator for all animation assets.

Additional Information

Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply.
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