Location: Leamington Spa, UK

We are looking for an experienced Animator with practical knowledge of game development.

You will be working alongside the animation team to create believable high-quality character animations. A strong understanding of the principals is essential with a keen eye for adding character and personality to your work.

You will be joining the team at a crucial time for the studio as we grow and develop our animation pipeline, which will offer a great career opportunity for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

Create high quality, hand keyed character, creature and environmental animations.
Work with the project leads and collaborate with other disciplines to ensure the animations works as intended in the game.
Ability to adapt and work with new technologies and workflows.
Work with both keyframe and motion capture data.
Problem solve typical game dev issues

Requirements

Strong key frame animation skills.
Strong character, creature and mechanical animation skills.
Ability to switch up styles from cartoony to realistic
Experience working with motion capture data.
Previous experience in games development, preferably with a shipped title under your belt.
Capable of meeting schedules and commit to delivery dates.
In depth knowledge of Maya.
Ability to implement your work in engine, working with anim graphs.
Experience in Unity and UE4 advantageous.
Be a team player, open to take and offer feedback.
Have the desire to help make awesome games.

A Portfolio is required demonstrating all aspects of your skills, please include a link in your application. All further information is provided under non-disclosure agreement only. This is a full time position in our Leamington Spa studio. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.K.

Experienced Animator