Senior Cinematic Designer

Summary

Join CD PROJEKT RED's Cinematics Team as a Senior Cinematic Designer and contribute to Project Orion, the follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077. As a skilled designer, you will craft interactive experiences that range from emotionally compelling to action-packed and spectacular.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of what creates great storytelling and how to use means of expression to create coherent and memorable scenes and sequences
• Perfect understanding of acting including posing and timing
• Experience with narrative design and interactive storytelling, using visual scripting
• Great knowledge of cinematography and editing
• Experience directing and/or acting
• Experience with working with a screenplay
• Minimum 8 years of AAA games development experience (doing long-form projects from inception to completion)
• Self-motivated team player
• Experience in using game engines: Unreal (preferably), Unity, Godot, REDkit etc
• Technical problem-solving
• Quick to adapt to company proprietary software
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Creating compelling scenes with excellent pacing, acting, cinematography, editing and timing
• Script and implement seamless, in-game sequences
• Communicating with Designers, other departments and Leads to improve readability of visual storytelling and establish perfect continuity of the story with gameplay
• Setting up actor staging and cameras using custom and library animations
• Working on mocap stage with actors, helping Cinematic Director with mocap-shoot preparation
• Completing tasks on time in high quality
• Following and maintaining pipelines and technical requirements

Benefits

• Company paid medical healthcare (dental vision & mental)
• Paid Leave — 20 days of holiday for every team member per year (26 days after two years)
• 401K with employer matching
• Gym Membership Reimbursement
• Flexible working hours
• Trainings, lectures and courses — internal workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available