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Gameplay Animator - Treyarch

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Treyarch is looking for a world-class, industry-leading Gameplay Animator for our future projects. In this role, you will help inspire the team by creating the highest quality animations while pushing the boundaries of gameplay, storytelling, and technology. The ideal candidate is passionate about animation, gameplay, and has a strong understanding of animation principles, body mechanics, and motion-capture editing techniques.

A successful Senior Gameplay Animator will bridge animation, engineering, and design to identify potential issues and deploy correct solutions. You must be highly organized and have outstanding communication skills. While working with a Lead Animator, you will champion the animation vision and become an essential pillar of the animation team. Additionally, a Senior Animator will provide relevant input that will influence animation technology development, resources, and tool development.

What you’ll do…

• With a focus on character performances and gameplay, produce high-quality third person animations using the tools at your disposal
• Effectively collaborate with Production, Animators, Designers, Artists, and Engineers
• Drive improvements to the third person animation pipeline, explore a wide variety of ideas that push the Call of Duty style of animation, and a passion to push it forward
• Animating in Key Frame animation and working with Motion Capture
• Identify potential areas of risk and work with other groups to mitigate that risk
• Hooking up animations within a ASM (Animation State Machine)

To succeed you must have…

• 3+ years of experience as an Animator n the game industry
• 1+ shipped titles
• Able to create animation suits/full set of player animations within a ASM (Animation State Machine)
• Great understanding of animation principles and realistic body mechanics
• Mentorship skills
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication
• Facial animation experience
• Expert knowledge of Maya
• Experience working with Motion Builder
• Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
• Expert knowledge of animation implementation and debugging techniques
• Self-starter and problem solver

We’d love it if you also have…

• Creature animation experience
• Camera animation skills
• Experience working with outsourcing
• Passionate about games and the Call of Duty franchise

About Treyarch

Founded in 1996, Treyarch is an award-winning videogame studio, driven to create awesome games for the world to enjoy. It is an approach that has helped make the studio behind the Black Ops series an industry-leading developer. Call of Duty®: Black Ops, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II, Call of Duty®: Black Ops III, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4, and the studio’s most recent release, Call of Duty®: Black Ops - Cold War, have all gone on to break industry records. Additionally, Treyarch is the birthplace of fan favorite, Call of Duty’s Zombies.

Working at Treyarch means having the opportunity to work on some of the biggest videogames in the industry, all within a culture that values individual talent and the teams that bring games to life. We provide our teams with the cutting-edge development tools needed to make their most ambitious plans a reality, allowing for rapid iteration and the ability to create the kinds of memorable gameplay moments that are ultimately shared by millions of fans around the world. We also embrace challenges, knowing that together, we can overcome anything…and hopefully inspire a few new game developers along the way.

Treyarch is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.treyarch.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/treyarch, and @treyarch on Twitter.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.