Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Animate dynamic, believable and appealing characters for both in-game and cut scene environments.
• Responsible for an animation or cinematic, seeing it through to completion, in a timely manner, to the highest quality possible.
• Produces 3D animation including both hand–created and mocap cleanup.
• Assists the Lead Animator in the evaluation of tools and processes.
• Partners with designers, programmers and other personnel involved in the development of products.
• Interacts with peers or managers in other units/teams/projects and/or vendors.
• Participates in the design of products and performs some testing.

Requirements

• University degree or formal vocational training in Art or Animation is preferred.
• At least 3 years of experience in computer generated animation.
• 3+ years of game development experience.
• Minimum of 3 years experience building, rigging, and animating characters, bi-peds and multi-legged figures.
• A strong understanding of character creation (model, texture, rig).
• Complete knowledge of 3DSMAX's animation tools is required.
• Knowledge of Motion Capture animation an asset.
• Experience creating both stylized and realistic animation for human and non-human characters.
• Experience with scripting, character set-up and editing motion capture performances.
• Experience with the technical animation aspects of 3D Studio Max, Maya.
• Highly proficient in the following 3D software packages: 3D Studio Max, Maya, Photoshop.
• Experience and proven ability in successfully creating and implementing both key-frame and motion capture animation.
• Communicate and partner effectively with the development team, including animators, motion capture specialists, modelers, designers and programmers, to help carry out the vision of the project.
• Thorough and solid understanding of animation theory and the principles of animation such as timing, weighting, performance and poses.
• Self driven, problem-solver and a great team-player.
• A strong passion for animation and video games.
• Experience training and mentoring less experienced animators.

Portfolio Requirements

All portfolios must contain a detailed shot breakdown of the work. It must be very clear what you, the applicant, are responsible for in your reel, screenshots, scanned pictures, web page portfolio, etc. We would also like you to include your name in the subject line of your emailed application, as well as the competition number of the position(s) that you are applying for.

3D portfolio Requirements (no originals please)

• Examples of various animations applied to humanoid figures and animal figures
• Examples of cinematic work
• Character rigging examples
• Examples of technical animation work: rigging, skinning
• Examples of various animations cycles applied to game characters
• Examples of motion capture direction and clean-up

2D portfolio (no originals please)

• Storyboarding skills
• Figure drawing
• Color work