Senior Animator

Bladework Games

Animator responsible for creating high-quality character animations for video games at Bladework Games. Passionate about game design with a focus on fluid and dynamic animations.

Posted 5/14/2026contractRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $115,000 - $145,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create high quality animations that portray character personalities consistent with the style
Demonstrate a superior sense of posing, timing, and weight
Continuously push the quality of the animations
Help to identify and solve animation process and implementation issues

Requirements

What you’ll need

Can demonstrate a strong understanding of animation fundamentals, and how they apply to game animation
Familiarity with UE5’s editor, pipeline and the ability to create and implement animations
The ability to create both character and creature specific animations in Maya
A passion for creating both stylized and realistic motion
An understanding of related skills such as modeling, skinning and rigging
Solid teamwork skills and the ability to work with other disciplines
Experience and enjoyment of working within the constraints of ability mechanics & timings that have already been locked down by gameplay
A great animation reel, with bonus points for including combat animations
At least one shipped title and a passion for gaming!

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Create high quality animations that portray character personalities consistent with the style
Demonstrate a superior sense of posing, timing, and weight
Continuously push the quality of the animations
Help to identify and solve animation process and implementation issues 🎯 Requirements
Can demonstrate a strong understanding of animation fundamentals, and how they apply to game animation
Familiarity with UE5’s editor, pipeline and the ability to create and implement animations
The ability to create both character and creature specific animations in Maya
A passion for creating both stylized and realistic motion
An understanding of related skills such as modeling, skinning and rigging
Solid teamwork skills and the ability to work with other disciplines
Experience and enjoyment of working within the constraints of ability mechanics & timings that have already been locked down by gameplay
A great animation reel, with bonus points for including combat animations
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Hard Skills & Tools

animation fundamentalscharacter animationcreature animationposingtimingweightmodelingskinningriggingcombat animations

Soft Skills

teamworkproblem-solvingcommunicationcreativityattention to detail