Senior Animator – Computer / Video Games - West Midlands
Fantastic opportunity for a Senior Animator to join a leading AAA Gaming Developer.
LOCATION: Birmingham / West Midlands / Worcestershire
What makes it GREAT?
-Excellent opportunity for career progression, going through an exciting period of organic growth.
-Company has very low staff turnover, Excellent sign that they look after their staff.
-Exciting and diverse projects, working on Iconic projects on a variety of platforms.
Role:
As a Senior Animator you will help lead and develop high quality Animation for AAA Unreal 4 projects
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the art and design teams to develop fully realised 3D animations for use in large-scale game world environments
- Communicate and collaborate with Leads and the Art Director, relaying feedback to the wider art team where required
- Help create and maintain animation libraries
- Work within the specifications of the project and technology, keeping the assets within budget, as well as following per project naming conventions
COMPANY:
Based in the midlands my client is a fast-growing gaming developer working on exciting projects with a long-term pipeline of work to fuel further growth of the business and your career.
REQUIREMENTS:
To be considered for this Animator role you must meet the following criteria:
- Excellent practical understanding of Unreal Engine 4’s animation pipeline
- Demonstrate expert understanding of motion and kinematics to enable you to get the most out of character, creature and prop animations
- Knowledgeable level of character skin weighting and rigging
- Comprehensive understanding of characters and object setup within animation blueprints
- Knowledge of Human IK or similar Maya rig controls
- Ability to build game ready locomotion animations for biped and non-biped characters (Advantageous)
- Understanding of best practice with geometry when applying deformation to a mesh (advantageus)
- Experience animating high quality characters for third and first person adventure games (Advantageus)
REMUNERATION:
The successful Animator will receive:
-Competitive Salary + Benefits
-Company bonus scheme
-Company outings & events
To be considered for this vacancy or to find out more information please apply now.
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