Senior Product Designer – Design System, Motion Design
HubSpot
React
Senior Animator
Jam City
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
Unity
About the role
- Consistently create and maintain high-quality animations for real-time 3D game assets, including short loops, locomotion cycles, and full cinematics with camera and character/creature animations
- Work alongside the animation team to create visually stunning animations for upcoming and live Jam City mobile games
- Collaborate with the Lead Animator to refine and maintain the game's animation style and feel
- Responsible for managing and providing feedback to outsourcing
- Provide feedback and mentor animators
- Provide detailed requests for and feedback on rigs
- Troubleshoot implementation issues and ensure animations integrate correctly in-game
- Maintain clean and organized work files
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of experience animating characters using Maya
- Self-motivated, an excellent communicator, a team player, and a winning mindset
- Skilled in 3D character animation for bipedal humanoids, creatures, and organic forms
- Expertly apply animation principles to in-game animation: timing, acting, & body mechanics
- Technical experience working with Maya and game engines such as Unity or Unreal
- Good understanding of humanoid and creature anatomy
- Proven problem-solving and prototyping ability, collaborating within the animation team and across adjacent teams
- Able to provide detailed requests for and feedback on rigs
- Expert in troubleshooting implementation issues
- Able to maintain clean and organized work files
- Must provide a Demo Reel with examples of most current acting and creature animation work and a shot breakdown explaining responsibilities
- Nice to have: Has shipped AAA and/or mobile games as a 3D character animator; Great 2D animation skills; Film animation experience; Experience in Shaders, FX or particle animation; Skill in one or more related disciplines – illustration, modeling, rigging, or technical art
Benefits
- Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days, Kin Care & Holidays*
- 100% Covered Medical and Company-Sponsored Dental & Vision (Plans Vary)*
- Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More*
- Wellness Activities & Programs
- 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave*
- Happy Hours
- Company Events
- Dog-Friendly*
- *Only applies to full-time positions.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
3D character animationMayaUnityUnrealanimation principlestimingactingbody mechanicstroubleshootingprototyping
Soft skills
self-motivatedexcellent communicatorteam playerproblem-solvingmentoringcollaborationfeedback provisionorganizational skillswinning mindsetattention to detail