Senior Animator
Magic Media
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇦 Ukraine
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Senior
About the role
- Work closely with the Lead Animator, internal team and clients to clean-up motion capture data to a high standard.
- Improve rough animation into final production-ready while preserving and accenting the actor’s intent, timing, and performance.
- Provide feedback, guidance, and mentorship to lower seniority clean-up artists.
- 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
- 5+ years of experience as an animator in a studio production pipeline.
- Previous experience on large-scale productions or long-form projects.
- Experience in supervising or leading clean-up teams.
- Strong understanding of animation principles.
- Experience animating humanoid characters and creatures.
- Strong experience with cleaning motion capture data.
- Creative problem solving for animation related tasks.
- Strong communication skills, a team player, and a positive attitude.
- Able to provide objective feedback and take direction well.
- Excellent English skills are a must - Spoken and written.
- Proficiency in industry standard software - Maya, Motion Builder.
- Experience working on a AAA game title or high end film production.
- Working knowledge 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
animationmotion capture data cleaninganimation principlesanimating humanoid charactersanimating creaturessupervising clean-up teamscreative problem solvingfile-management practicesproduction deadlinescontinuity of animation quality
Soft skills
communication skillsteam playerpositive attitudeobjective feedbacktaking direction