Senior Character Animator
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Posted
1 day ago
Salary
Not specified
Seniority
Senior
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Job Description
Role Description
We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Character Animator to bring high-quality, responsive, and emotionally engaging character performances to life in our project.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a Character Animator in game development
- Experience shipping at least one game title
- Strong portfolio / demo reel demonstrating gameplay animation
- Excellent understanding of body mechanics, weight, timing, and performance
- Experience creating combat and locomotion systems
- Proficiency in Autodesk Maya
- Strong understanding of animation for real-time gameplay
- Experience working with animation blueprints
- Ability to work closely with designers to refine gameplay feel
Requirements
- Create high-quality keyframe animations for player characters and NPCs
- Produce combat, locomotion, cinematic, and gameplay-driven animations
- Collaborate with Design to ensure responsiveness and gameplay clarity
- Work closely with Technical Animators and Engineers to implement animations in Unreal Engine
- Participate in motion capture cleanup and refinement (if applicable)
- Maintain consistency with the project’s visual and animation direction
- Provide feedback and mentorship to other animators
- Help define animation pipelines and best practices
Benefits
- Experience with motion capture workflows and cleanup
- Experience with root motion and in-place animation systems
- Experience with Unreal Engine 5 features
- Knowledge of Control Rig in Unreal
- Experience with facial animation
- Understanding of technical constraints and performance optimization
- Experience implementing animations in Unreal Engine (state machines, blend spaces, montages)
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a Character Animator in game development
- Experience shipping at least one game title
- Strong portfolio / demo reel demonstrating gameplay animation
- Excellent understanding of body mechanics, weight, timing, and performance
- Experience creating combat and locomotion systems
- Proficiency in Autodesk Maya
- Strong understanding of animation for real-time gameplay
- Experience working with animation blueprints
- Ability to work closely with designers to refine gameplay feel
- Create high-quality keyframe animations for player characters and NPCs
- Produce combat, locomotion, cinematic, and gameplay-driven animations
- Collaborate with Design to ensure responsiveness and gameplay clarity
- Work closely with Technical Animators and Engineers to implement animations in Unreal Engine
- Participate in motion capture cleanup and refinement (if applicable)
- Maintain consistency with the project’s visual and animation direction
- Provide feedback and mentorship to other animators
- Help define animation pipelines and best practices
Benefits
- Experience with motion capture workflows and cleanup
- Experience with root motion and in-place animation systems
- Experience with Unreal Engine 5 features
- Knowledge of Control Rig in Unreal
- Experience with facial animation
- Understanding of technical constraints and performance optimization
- Experience implementing animations in Unreal Engine (state machines, blend spaces, montages)
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