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What’s It All About

You breathe life into the worlds we create. Whether you’re animating a character with two legs or six legs, you make their movements believable and memorable. From the smallest, nuanced gesture to all-out action, your understanding of weight and timing transcends the 2D confines of an animation program, making the player truly connect with their characters and the enemies they fight.

A Typical Day

After a refreshing cup of morning coffee, you sit down and look at the animation work you did yesterday. Is it just you or does that run cycle look a little “floaty”? You call over another animator to get a second opinion – yup, looks like it could use a little more weight. He suggests that after lunch you and he grab a camera and shoot some reference video of that particular run. Later in the afternoon, you take an hour to sit down with one of the modelers and talk about some of the high-level weapons being designed. What could we animate to make them look cooler?

Who You Work With the Most

You and the other animators are a tight-nit group that are regularly critiquing each other’s work. It is vital that animation tips, tricks and techniques are shared within the team. By developing a rapport with the artists and the designers, you’re able to understand where they’re going with different ideas as well, making sure your animations reflect the personalities of the characters and monsters you create.

What You’ve Done Before

• Outstanding animation skills. The ability to give life to both creatures and mechanical objects.
• Experience shipping games with great keyframe animation
• Outstanding animation skills. The ability to give life to both creatures and mechanical objects.
• A thorough understanding of animation using 3DS Max
• Experience rigging using Puppetshop a plus
• Experience with Morpheme or Endorphin a plus
• Great people skills, able to work in multi-disciplinary, team oriented environments.
• A sense of fun.