Middle Cleanup Animator
Magic Media
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇦 Ukraine
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Mid-LevelSenior
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
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