Senior Gameplay Animator

Insomniac Games

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $77 per hour

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Creates animation content at a consistently expert quality level delivered on schedule and meeting performance targets.\n
  • Works with Animation Directors and Lead Animators to establish animation style and with the gameplay animation team to maintain a cohesive animation style for the game, providing constructive feedback as needed.\n
  • Mentors, tutors, and aids others based on documented workflows.\n
  • Ensures Designers and Programmers understand the creative direction and identifies required animation assets for characters and scenes through clear cross-department communication.\n
  • Provides support for both independent and embedded Co-Dev resources and organizes work for Ex-Dev resources including creating briefs and reviewing and integrating deliveries.\n
  • Experiments with and evaluates techniques to improve efficiency, workflow, and visual fidelity in our animation pipeline.\n
  • Assists in establishing and maintaining performance targets and collaborates with other departments to ensure animation is implemented appropriately in the game engine.\n
  • Assists with creating documentation in Confluence, or equivalent.\n
  • Assists with tasking in JIRA, or equivalent.\n
  • Effectively communicates with the Animation Director and Project Management to report progress and ensure timely completion of deliverables.\n
  • Other duties may be assigned

Requirements

  • Advanced knowledge of Maya\n
  • Insomniac proprietary tools (preferred)\n
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite\n
  • MotionBuilder and Adobe Premiere a plus\n
  • Knowledge of common state machine flow in any game engine a plus