Junior Animator
Magic Media
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇦 Ukraine
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Junior
About the role
- Assist the animation team in creating high-quality animations for projects.
- Clean-up motion capture data and improve rough animations under the guidance of senior animators.
- Follow established pipelines, naming conventions, and file-management practices.
- Maintain continuity of animation quality throughout tasks and projects.
- Coordinate with producers and supervisors to achieve project goals.
Requirements
- 1-3 years of experience as an animator in a studio production pipeline (internships or academic projects are acceptable).
- Basic understanding of animation principles.
- Experience animating humanoid characters and props.
- 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 constructive feedback and ability to take direction from leads and supervisors.
- Excellent English skills are a must - spoken and written.
- Proficiency in industry-standard software, particularly Maya and Motion Builder.
- **DESIRABLE PLUSES: **
- Experience working on a game title or in film production.
- Familiarity with animation scripts, rigging, and motion capture systems.
- Knowledge of 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 capturecleaning motion capture dataanimating humanoid charactersanimation principlesrigginganimation scripts
Soft skills
creative problem solvingstrong communication skillsteam playerpositive attituderesponsiveness to feedbackability to take direction