Senior Gameplay Animator

demiurgestudios.com

Job Description

Are you a self-directed, talented gameplay animator who has production experience with Unreal and the necessary skills to make gameplay look and feel amazing?

We’re looking for a talented gameplay animator to help our team take an original IP project from the early concept phase through launch. If you dream about beautiful animation and great gameplay and want to help define the animation style for our next game, keep reading!

If you are a team player who possesses excellent communication skills, a strong sense of accountability, and a desire to collaborate and learn, we’d love to talk with you!

Please note, relocation assistance or remote work within the United States may be available for this role.

Responsibilities

• Support, collaborate, and innovate solutions to improve gameplay readability, storytelling and design mechanics using animation with lean direction and support.
• A strong understanding of authoring and implementing key-frame animation for characters, creatures, and other assets.
• A gameplay-first focus. The ability to rapidly prototype and iterate on an animation to get the perfect gameplay feel.
• Champion Character, Controls, and Camera principles and apply them to both 1st and 3rd person views.
• Create and maintain animation workflows, pipelines, and processes for action games (preferably shooters) using Maya/Max/Motion Builder, and implement them in Unreal.
• 3+ years game industry employment and at least 1+ shipped titles. We’d love to see your portfolio!
• A knack for creating and maintaining animation documentation.
• A desire to share your techniques and mentor others.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience setting up character and facial rigging.
• Unreal expertise including anim blueprints, montages, and overall animation workflow.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Eager to try new tools and tech such as local mo-cap and the latest Unreal tech.
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to operate within an agile, fast-paced, and sometimes ambiguous environment.

Additional Skills

• Traditional animation skills.
• Mo-cap experience (directing and clean-up).
• First person animation experience.
• ‘T-shaped’ game dev skills (other skills such as modeling, vfx, lighting, coding, etc).
• Passion for multiplayer games (PvE and PvP).
• Modeling skills.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, at Demiurge you will find a studio with an amazing, collaborative culture and a deep respect for art in all our games. With over 20 years of game development expertise and teams all over North America, our commitment to sane and sustainable development is well known in the game community. We also provide co-development services to larger, best-in-industry game companies. This is an exciting time to join Demiurge as we are developing our own independent titles as well. With tons of challenges and opportunities ahead, we are always looking for great talent!

Benefits

• 401K Partial Match
• Flexible work environment
• Generous PTO program including vacation days, sick days, and holidays.
• Medical benefits with PPO options that start on your first day of employment
• Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA)
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (HC & DC FSA)
• Commuter Reimbursement Program (Commuter FSA)
• Tuition reimbursement promoting lifelong learning
• Referral bonuses
• Bonus plan
• Access to our huge game library!
• Free snacks and drinks!
• Demi-Lunch Tuesday - Lunch is on us!
• Game Night Food
• Ping Pong!
• Step Mania! Get your dance on!

Demiurge Studios is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, or Veteran status. Demiurge Studios also makes workplace accommodations for individuals with disabilities or special needs.

How to Apply

Apply via: https://jobs.lever.co/demiurgestudios/47d46b7e-3a19-4797-9411-cf0758e6cb8f