Animator

ABOUT BALLISTIC MOON

We are an established game studio based in the South East of England.

With a growing team of highly experienced developers, we focus on creating the exceptional and innovative games of the future. We’re currently working with a AAA publisher in the early stages of a major new project as well as our own IP.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality animation.
• Be an advocate for animation and keep abreast of practices and peer products.
• Create in studio animation and help oversee outsourced animation as required.
• Create well written animation research documentation when required.
• Work with Producers and the Lead animator to ensure a realistic project scope.

Qualifications/Skills

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills
• Hold a high personal work standard and be comfortable delivering benchmark animation for the studio.
• Have working experience and hands on knowledge of rigging, motion capture optimisation and key framed animation in a real time environment such as games or VR.
• Be able to show a good knowledge of animation be it cinematic, traditional or games.
• Can work effectively with outsource teams and provide clear and easy to follow guidance.
• Own implementation of animation from start to finish.
• Positive and grounded attitude.
• Able to communicate key ideas both creatively and technically.
• Respond well to feedback and iterate as required.
• Be able to work remotely.
• Friendly, enthusiastic, and collaborative nature.

Required Experience

• Previous experience as an animator
• An interesting portfolio showcasing a solid knowledge of character animation and animation theory.
• Experience with rigging and technical animation pipelines
• In depth animation experience in Maya
• 2+ years games industry experience required.
• Shipped at least one project throughout development cycle on console or PC- or have professionally published work.
• Comfortable presenting animation work, updates, and pre-viz work to the development team.
• A passion for games with a good understanding of the games industry, development cycles and professional workflows

Bonus Skills

• Working experience in UE4, Unity and in-house game engines
• Experience with motion capture pipelines
• Knowledge and experience with camera animation and a keen interest in cinematography
• Has worked within an agile development methodology.