Requisition Number: 164712
NHL is looking for an Animator to join the team. Animators will portray movement and behavior. Animators will create emotionally believable characters that allow game players to interact with the game, whether photorealistic or stylized, in a realistic and believable fashion.
You will be on a temporary assignment (1 year contract) to start, with potential for longer term employment.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop animation features, in collaboration with the producers and software engineers.
- Build and maintain complex animation trees using our proprietary Animation Toolkit.
- Help design animation components that can be shared across features and even across games.
Qualifications:
- Experienced CG character animator.
- Minimum 2 years work experience.
- Have excellent character animation skills.
- Have experience animating cameras, and a good eye for cinematics.
- Have working knowledge of a 3D animation package. (Maya, XSI etc.)
- Familiarity with Autodesk's Motionbuilder.
- Experience working in gaming.
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