Senior Animator

We are Turtle Rock Studios. An award-winning game developer of AAA first person shooters and other games, including the latest co-op shooter franchise, Back 4 Blood . We are located in the heart of Orange County, CA and have team members working remotely throughout North America. We thrive in an open and collaborative environment which is led to this day by co-founders Chris Ashton and Phil Robb.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Lead Animator and team to create industry-leading appealing animation and immersive, memorable, and seamless gameplay experiences
• Give characters unique personalities that embody the artistic and gameplay style and vision
• Constantly push animation quality higher
• Collaborate with character and tech art teams during all character creation phases
• Collaborate and iterate quickly with designers and programmers from prototype to final
• Work in engine creating, implementing, tuning, and regularly testing animation assets with an attention to detail
• Organize complicated sets of animation data and assets
• Help establish and refine animation pipeline and tools
• Coordinate with all departments to achieve project goals

Requirements

• Strong understanding of animation principles
• Strong keyframe and mocap clean-up animation skills
• Experience animating humanoid characters and creatures
• Experience with animation systems in Unreal Engine 4, or equivalent (animation blueprints, graphs and state machines, blendspaces, and montages)
• Creative problem solving at all stages of development
• Strong communication skills, a team player, and a positive attitude
• Able to provide objective feedback and take direction well
• Strong work ethic and self-motivated, able to maintain high quality of in-game animation and consistent progress without constant supervision
• Your reel must be included with your resume
• An animation test may be required

Preferences

• 7+ years game industry experience
• Expert with Maya or similar package
• Working knowledge of modeling, skinning, and rigging for games and how it pertains to animation
• Familiarity of development tools such as Perforce, JIRA, and Confluence

Benefits