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Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

Bethesda Game Studios is looking for an exceptional Facial Animator to maintain and improve the facial animation pipeline collaborating closely with artists, programmers, designers, producers, and external vendors.

As Senior Animator, you will…

  • Apply animation principles to create high-quality character specific animations, while making any changes based on artistic direction using both a FACS based system and motion capture data

  • Work in collaboration with members of the team to address animation needs and requirements for cinematic content and gameplay

  • Actively engage with developers outside of your discipline, creating a positive and productive experience for all involved

  • Assist and provide constructive feedback to other animators

  • Communicate needs to any out-of-team or external dependencies

  • Consistently integrate and maintain your work in the game

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

  • You have 5+ years of professional or related experience as a Facial Animator

  • You possess outstanding animation skills, displaying a strong understanding of the principles and a desire to improve

  • You have a strong understanding of FACS based systems

  • You are detail-oriented

  • You are a self-motivated team player with a strong work ethic and cooperative attitude

  • You’re great at adapting to change and accept constructive feedback well

  • You possess excellent problem-solving and prototyping skills

  • You are highly organized and have excellent time management skills

  • You have excellent oral and written communication skills

  • You are proficient working with motion capture in either Maya or Motion Builder

  • You have a passion for gaming and making GREAT games

  • You are passionate about pushing animation quality to the next level

Bonus Skills

  • You’ve previously developed high output Facial Animation pipelines

  • You have experience in a leadership role

  • You have experience directing motion capture shoots

  • You are experienced working with external vendors

  • You’ve previously animated on open world games

  • You have animation graph experience

  • You have experience working closely with AI programmers and Gameplay programmers, understanding the technicalities of game AI and game functionality