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Lead Animator

Turtle Rock Studios is an award-winning independent game developer best known for its work on AAA franchises like Left 4 Dead, Evolve, and Counter-Strike. We are a diverse team of inspired content creators, artists and engineers who share a passion for making fun, innovative games that gamers love to play.

We are looking for a talented Lead Animator to help bring our characters to life in our newly announced AAA title, Back 4 Blood! You will be crafting industry-leading animations and memorable gameplay experiences. As a member of our team, you will demonstrate a clear knowledge of animation principles and constantly push the quality of animation higher.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers, artists, and programmers to establish, iterate, and refine the animation pipeline
• Provide direction, mentorship and feedback to the animation team to ensure highest quality
• Create character motions through a blend of key-frame animation and motion capture
• Organize complicated sets of animation data
• Facilitate and inform tool development

Requirements

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional gameplay animation experience
• Expert with Maya or similar package
• Expert keyframe animation skills
• Experience editing and cleaning up motion capture
• Good instincts of realistic movement
• Experience in a Lead or mentorship role
• Strong communicator with a positive attitude

Bonus, if you have:

• A Bachelor's degree or diploma, with an emphasis in animation
• Knowledge of Perforce

Benefits

Some of the benefits and perks our employees get to enjoy, include:

• Competitive salary
• 100% healthcare coverage
• 401k matching
• Profit sharing plan
• Generous time off
• Flexible spending accounts
• Career improvement program
• Pet friendly office
• Fully stocked kitchen, sponsored food trucks, etc.