Senior Animator
Skills
AffinityAppealsCharacter ArtCooperativeExpressiveMMOMultiplayer Games
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional animation work
- Demonstrated strength in both character performance animation and gameplay animation
- Strong understanding of character acting facial expression appeal timing and physicality
- Strong understanding of gameplay readability responsiveness combat feel and player feedback
- Strong rigging skills
- Experience implementing animation content in Unreal Engine
- Comfort working directly in-engine to solve problems and iterate on content
- The ability to independently own a discipline and make forward progress with minimal oversight
- Strong written communication skills and comfort working in a fully remote asynchronous environment
- The ability to discuss technical and creative tradeoffs with designers engineers artists and external partners
- Comfort learning unfamiliar tools workflows or disciplines when doing so benefits the project
- Comfort using AI-assisted tools as part of a modern game development workflow
Nice to have
- Builder mindset
- Self-directed
- Highly autonomous
- Clear communicator
- Cross-disciplinary
- Technical curiosity
- Workflow improver
- Game jam experience
- Small-team adaptable
- Anime affinity
Day to day
- Create high-quality character gameplay and combat animation for a PvE co-op action game
- Bring personality appeal emotion and charm to characters through expressive performance and facial animation
- Own animation end to end by rigging implementing iterating and polishing directly in Unreal Engine while solving technical problems and improving workflows
Hiring process
- Submit portfolio and application materials
- Interview process with team and recruiter
- Discuss skills and experience
- Potential review of work samples