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3d Animator- Senior
3 years ago
Job Description
● Be responsible for providing high quality 3D animations for ongoing projects.
● Overlook and provide quality feedback for processes and projects on-development.
● Provide high quality 3D animations for projects required
Principal Accountabilities
Artistic and Technical Responsibilities
- Creating believable high-quality key-framed animations for real-time and pre rendered sequences
- Collaborate with game designers and programmers to achieve the best animation within the platform limitations.
- Meet the project milestones and deadlines.
- Advance knowledge about all the necessary tools
- Work with the production team and Lead animator’s / Lead artists
- Animate Characters and Game Objects
- Rigging and Skinning with ability to do complex rigs
- Coach and train Junior Animators.
Contribution in Management
- Work closely with the lead animator, team producer, 3D specialist and the Studio Lead Artist.
- Support to establish development guidelines for every aspect of art production
- Thorough and organized, allowing you to work with goals and to see a project through to its end within given deadlines
- Contribute to good working environment for the team
- Foresee future mistakes and prevent them from happening
Reporting
- Report your tasks status to your Lead or Producers
Qualifications
Knowledge
- Academic background in animation or equivalent, hand drawing, sketching and/or illustration.
- Advanced knowledge in character motion, physics-based motion and of the fundamental principles of animation.
- Over 3 years’ experience in 3D Studio Max and Character Studio.
- Over 3 years’ games industry experience
- Great understanding about human anatomy, proportion and perspective
- Excellent knowledge in skinning, rigging with low to medium polygon counts.
- Worked at least in the release of 1 AAA game
- Knowledge in contemporary media (web, games, comics, film, animation, etc.)
- Great understanding of composition, color, shading, lighting, post-processing
- Ability to resolve any artistic or technical issues
- Working experience on PC or consoles is a major asset.
- Perfect understanding of topologies associated to production constraints.
Skills
- Being able to define and execute creative and stylish (Cartoony or Realistic) animations for characters, vehicles and objects.
- Good English oral and written skills
- Ability to accurately estimate time to complete tasks and manage priorities to meet deadlines
- Having good sense of initiatives, be original and inventive
- Effective organizational skills
- Great interpersonal skills
- Great sense of creativity and art
- Work well as part of a team and be able to take direction from Art Lead, 3D specialist and Producers
- Be able to follow a brief and work on their own initiative
- Work well under pressure
- Great artistic eyes, pay attention to detail
- Communicating competencies. Getting along with others, negotiation, conflict resolution and decision-making.
Attitude
- Commitment and sense of responsibility: Show strong commitment to the team and to the company and be willing to work hard to complete the task on time
- Open-minded: Demonstrate flexibility of thinking and accept positive feedback from others for improvement
- Self-disciplined: Demonstrate strong motivation and passion at work
- Team work: Cooperate with team members and actively provide support
- Passion for playing video games across multiple platforms
- Proactive, autonomous, responsible and well organized
- Keep good mindset and managing stress facing issues
Leadership
- Leadership skills over junior artists
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Additional Information
Why join the Gameloft universe?
- Because you want to be part of an exceptional experience, within a company that is constantly growing!
- Because you want to work with talented people who are industry pioneers!
- Because you want to join a global company and meet great people around the world from all walks of life.
- Or, just because you’re looking for a great place to work!
What we offer:
- Teamwork with international talents
- Recognition and rewards
- Creative and modern workplace
- Continuous and professional training
- Work hard, play hard
We can’t wait to find our next great talent!
- Please submit your CV, cover letter or portfolio (if applicable)
- Please note that only selected candidates will be contacted and your CV will be saved in our files for a period of 6 months.
Company Description
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