Senior Animator

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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