Mid to Senior Animator

Free Range Games (Sausalito, CA) is opening a studio in Montreal and is looking for an Animator to join our veteran team of game makers. You will work closely with our Art, Design and Engineering leaders to create innovative gameplay, in-game cinematic experiences and epic moments for brand new, next generation console and PC games.

Responsibilities:

• Work with creative leads to pre-vis and develop initial ideas
• Create game-ready assets utilizing both hand-keyed and motion capture animation data, on realistic human and stylized creature characters, for AAA-level interactive and cinematic sequences
• Collaborate with designers, producers and art leaders to develop great ideas and create a plan to make them happen
• Coordinate with gameplay engineers to integrate animations in game and iterate on them to hit fun and quality goals
• Actively advance skill set and abilities by keeping aware of industry trends and techniques, evaluating competitive products, and learning new software packages.

Qualifications:

• Three years of professional animation experience on AAA titles
• Awesome portfolio
• Expert at Maya
• Cinematic Editing
• Excellent hand key animation skills
• Experience with Unreal a plus
• Experience with modern character pipelines