Senior Animator- AAA Mech Title!- £65K

"To apply: Ref - 5260700. Based in Guildford, An exciting games studio is looking for an exceptionally skilled Senior Animator to assist in the creation of the next big free-to-play title.

In this position you will be working within a multidisciplinary team of developers in a global community and will have the ability to both share your hard-earned knowledge and continue to develop your skill set by learning from your teammates.

What will you do?

• Bring life and emotion to characters and creatures
• Develop an animation style which enhances the visual art style of our game
• Help design, construct, document and implement pipeline procedures
• Create both gameplay and cutscene animations
• Work with Technical Art/Animation to implement animations and animation systems
• Help support off-site development partners
• Collaborate with the Art Director to deliver innovation and drive quality
• Assist the Art Production Director in planning within this discipline

Experience/Skills Wanted:

• Proven ability to create exceptional stylised and realistic animation
• Excellent keyframe animation skills
• Ownership of animation quality from source to engine
• Experience authoring animations for gameplay systems
• Good understanding of game animation pipelines
• Significant Unreal development experience
• Proficiency with Autodesk Maya
• Experience with Animation Systems (such as blueprints & state machines)
• Excellent verbal and written skills, and be able to both take critique and give feedback internally and externally in a professional manner
• Diligent self-management around both individual and team tasks, schedule and budgets
• Strong organizational skills with adherence to optimization and asset management

Bonus Skills:

• Understanding of expressive story telling
• BA in art or related field or equivalent experience.
• Samples of your work displaying a range of expressive motion in a variety of character types
• Passion for making and playing great games, with an awareness of current titles and industry trends.

Applications without a portfolio can not be considered.

To apply please send CV to Ayesha@ or phone 020 7580 6018 for a confidential chat (ideally over your cv / resume). We value close, personal relationships with our candidates and applications by this method tend to be more successful.

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