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Senior Gameplay Animator (remote friendly)
2 years ago
Job Description
Do you love squeezing out every single drop of personality from character with realistic or outsized animations while keeping a sharp eye to readability, crispness, and emotion? Do you prefer stylized fantasy worlds where you really push what’s possible, not held back by the super realistic physics or typical human constraints. We're looking for a senior animator who has a flair for creativity, and a core understanding of core animation elements such as weight, anticipation, and impact.
Key Duties:
- Create stunning animations that are fluid and responsive, and readable for gameplay
- Advise and inform our art and design team for animation pitfalls that can be addressed upstream, as well as point out and brainstorm opportunities for epic animations that can be taken into consideration early in our creative process.
- Contribute to the formation of our animation pipeline
- Iterate frequently based on your intuitions as a player, feedback from playtesters, and from the team itself
- Contribute design ideas for our first prototypes, everyone on our team will help shape the games we build as a studio beyond their primary responsibility
Qualifications
- 4 years experience doing character animation for combat based games.
- Strong understanding of the principals of motion
- Strong knowledge of industry standard tools (3DS Max, Maya, MotionBuilder etc.)
Teamwork and other Qualifications:
- Effective working autonomously, we want you to feel comfortable allocating your time wisely and making good on your commitments
- Strong analytical skills that aid in understanding and articulating what makes games great
- Solid team player. We want people who are excited to be part of a small, tight-knit team focused on delivering awesome experiences to players
- A passion and love for games
Nice to haves:
- Experience with modern game engines (Unreal/Unity)
- Experience making assets for mobile
Additional Information
Benefits:
- Dental/Vision/Pharmacare coverage. Canada has universal health care, so you and your family will be covered by OHIP.
- Open paid-time-off policy with 2 week minimum enforced by the company. We trust you to take time off when you need it.
- Competitive salaries that value your experience and dedication.
- Stock options in an early stage startup. We want you to be motivated to stick with us for the long haul.
- Relocation assistance, and immigration where applicable.
Company Description
Odyssey Interactive is a Canadian Game Development studio formed around the mantra of building "Games you Live". We believe that the best games are the ones you think about long after you put them down, that help you feel like you're a part of something bigger than yourself, and that you believe you can invest in for years to come.
The founding team is comprised of 4 former leads from Riot Games where we led teams such as a the League of Legends Balance Team, the League of Legends Champion Design team, and the development of Teamfight Tactics - and are excited to try to build a highly innovative, played obsessed studio with an awesome team...a team that you could be a part of!
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