Animator, Creature & Gameplay Focus
Steamroller Animation
Senior Gameplay Animator
Insomniac Games
full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $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
