Senior Gameplay Animator

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Gameplay Animator for a one-year contract! Collaborate with designers, programmers, and technical animators to create lifelike animations for human enemies (NPCs). You will plan and craft animation sets, enhancing gameplay and aligning with the game's vision. Responsibilities include delivering in-game animations using Autodesk Maya, MotionBuilder, and Unreal Engine; planning and directing motion capture sessions; and establishing animation asset creation workflows. Passion for games and a dynamic environment are essential. We offer flexible working hours, a welcome pack, training opportunities, and various perks.

Requirements

• Strong experience with motion capture data and key-frame animation
• Solid understanding of animation principles and body mechanics
• Experience shipping games with at least one title released
• Good grasp and understanding of gameplay design
• Strong knowledge of the latest Unreal Engine animation and gameplay-related systems
• Very good communication and problem-solving skills
• Fluent English

Responsibilities

• Delivering in-game animations using Autodesk Maya, MotionBuilder and Unreal Engine as the main art creation and implementation tools
• Planning, preparing, and directing motion capture sessions
• Establishing and maintaining animation asset creation workflows, folders, naming conventions and other engine-related organizational structures
• Planning and co-developing multipleNPC-related animation systems, including the structures of animation graphs, procedural animation setups, and engine-specific auxiliary data such as notification and synchronization events, and additional data settings files

Preferred Qualifications

Basic knowledge of Python and the ability to read scripts or C++ code will be a plus

Benefits

• Flexible working hours — start your workday anytime between 8:00 and 10:00 AM
• A welcome pack filled with goodies — to help you feel right at home once you join the team
• Trainings, lectures and courses — internal workshops, external training for each employee, ‘Meet a star’ events, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available. There’s always something to learn!
• Merch — gifts for newborn rebels and regular chances to nab some cool swag!
• Private medical healthcare — a selection of medical plans with dental care to choose from, which are also accessible for your partner and relatives
• Psychological care — free mental health support and various well-being webinars
• Multisport card — gain access to a wide number of sporting and fitness facilities across the city