Senior Gameplay Animator

Senior Gameplay Animator – 12940

Are you an experienced gameplay animator? Do you understand gameplay animation production and its idiosyncrasies? This could be the perfect senior role for you…

As a Senior Gameplay Animator, you will be working remotely in the UK, you will be producing and integrating animations into the game and ensuring that technical constraints are met. You will take your experience from your previous senior roles and work with code and design to bring characters to life, always ensuring the quality of animation and the player experience

This studio offers a welcoming and relaxed working environment, and alongside this, offer an industry-leading benefits package. This includes generous holidays, huge social events, free snacks onsite, game jams, and loads more. 

Requirements

• Previously shipped AAA console games in a senior role
• Experience using game engines and working with state machine/blend tree solutions
• Experience and understanding of implementation for core gameplay systems and mechanics and up to date with current industry practices
• In depth knowledge of Maya and Motion Builder
• Mentoring skills, able to help junior staff to grow and improve whilst giving and receiving constructive feedback with the team

Responsibilities

• Implementing animations into engines to produce high quality key-frame animation
• Using Motion Builder and mocap data editing techniques
• Crafting appealing animations, across a broad range of styles including dynamic stylisation and realistic body mechanics
• Coaching and mentoring junior staff members
• Contributing to the design and execution of complex gameplay systems

Think you could be the right fit for this senior role? Contact Ashley at ab@skillsearch.com for more details…

Years of experience and salary levels are shown purely as a guide. We will only consider applications from candidates that can demonstrate the skills or experience required for the role.

Please be aware that while we would love to respond to every application we receive, due to high numbers we cannot guarantee this. We do however appreciate any time you invest into the application and will make sure to get in touch should anything in future more closely fit your skillset.