Middle Cleanup Animator
Magic Media
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Ukraine
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About the role
- Work closely with the Lead Animator and internal team to clean-up motion capture data to a high standard.
- Clean-up and improve rough animation into final, production-ready, while preserving and accenting the actor’s intent, timing, and performance.
- Ensure shots meet studio quality standards and production deadlines.
- Closely follow established pipelines, naming conventions, and file-management practices.
- Maintain continuity of animation quality throughout the tasks and project.
- Coordinate with producers and supervisors to achieve project goals.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as an animator in a studio production pipeline.
- Strong understanding of animation principles.
- Experience in animating humanoid characters, creatures, props and weapons.
- Experience with cleaning motion capture data.
- Creative problem solving for animation related tasks.
- Strong communication skills, a team player, and a positive attitude.
- Responsiveness to objective feedback and being able to take direction from leads and supervisors.
- Excellent English skills are a must - Spoken and written.
- Proficiency in industry standard software - Maya, Motion Builder.
- **DESIRABLE PLUSES: **
- Experience working on a AAA game title or high end film production.
- Previous experience on large-scale productions or long-form projects.
- Familiarity of various animation scripts, rigging, motion capture systems.
- Familiarity with communication tools such as Slack, JIRA, and Confluence.
Benefits
- Project based remote position with a possibility for long term engagement.
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects.
- Be part of an international group with offices worldwide.
- Career growth and development.
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities.
- An inclusive culture and open communication.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
animation principlesanimating humanoid charactersanimating creaturesanimating propsanimating weaponscleaning motion capture dataanimation scriptsriggingmotion capture systemsproduction pipeline
Soft Skills
creative problem solvingstrong communication skillsteam playerpositive attituderesponsiveness to feedbackability to take direction