Senior Cinematic Animator

People Can Fly is looking for a Senior Cinematic Animator skilled at creating both realistic and stylized motion for in-game characters (humanoid, creature, or machine). You will be creating high quality content utilizing both hand key animation and motion capture data, developing animations that support gameplay and visuals, implementing and iterating on animation assets in game, collaborating with team to create dynamic, player centric experience, troubleshooting and solve animation issues with all departments and organizing and prioritizing animation tasks.

 

Qualifications

A minimum of 3 years’ professional experience as an animator in film, TV, or games

A minimum of 3 years’ professional experience in story boarding

Strong understanding of the principles of animation and character anatomy

Facial animation and lip-syncing

Excellent organizational, communication, and time management skills

Able to take direction and implement feedback

Ability to think outside the box to come up with more efficient techniques

High work ethic and self-motivated

Passion for Games

 

Preference to applicants with

Artistic skills: figure study, gesture drawing, 2D animation, illustration and painting

Technical skills: rigging, scripting, proficient in Maya and MotionBuilder

Shipped AAA game title experience

Familiarity with Unreal or similar game engine

 

Language

English and/or Polish language skills (everyone in our studio speaks English, but Polish language skills are a plus)