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Senior Animator

Supermassive Games are looking for a highly talented and experienced Senior Animator to play a key role in the studio.

You will be responsible for a creating and editing key-frame animation and editing mocap data for in-game characters and sequences, to provide high-quality content for one of our games currently in production.

Key skills and Responsibilities

• The ability to follow an artistic vision and interpret feedback and direction accurately
• An ability to interpret storyboards and take them through to final animation
• A solid understanding of traditional animation principles (timing, weight, etc.)
• Experience working with and editing mocap data.
• Ability to create and iterate key-frame animation.
• Taking ownership of larger tasks and seeing them through to completion.
• Strong staging and block-out skills, with a good eye for character posing.
• Collaborating with other disciplines such as environment, character, lighting and VFX artists, graphics programmers and level designers to create a AAA game experience.

Requirements

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience as an animator, working on at least one AAA game.
• Creating believable key-framed performances for both humans and creatures
• Able to clean up and enhance motion captured performances
• Detailed knowledge of the workflows and methods involved in animating game characters, vehicles and objects.
• A strong portfolio of work which demonstrates the ability to create high-quality animations.
• Some experience in a Lead capacity would also be an advantage.

Technical Skills/Knowledge

• Maya
• Motion Builder
• Knowledge of the principles of key-frame and motion capture technology
• Experience of character rigs and facial animation solutions

The candidate should have:

• A drive to constantly push animation quality and try out new ideas.
• A highly positive and proactive work ethic.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.

To enjoy working at Supermassive you also need to be:

• Flexible and open-minded
• Determined and self-motivated
• Prepared to rise to a challenge
• Always striving for quality
• Creative and innovative