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Animation Specialist, Vicarious Visions
Location: Albany, New York
Vicarious Visions, developer of numerous award winning games, including Skylanders Super Chargers, Skylanders Swap Force, Guitar Hero: On Tour, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is seeking a passionate, motivated, and experienced Animation Specialist to join our team of talented developers in creating next generation games.
Job duties include
- Work closely with the Animation Lead developing, defining and maintaining high-end animation.
- Seek out guidance from lead and other experienced artists to provide the best quality artwork and most efficient methodologies.
- Proactive in creating solutions and solving problems.
- Participate in peer reviews, giving and receiving team feedback.
- Able to work with team members of other disciplines. Such as, communicating with game-play programmers for implementing character mechanics.
- Collaborate in generating and presenting ideas for Artist development and Studio growth.
- Contribute documentation on processes and task tracking throughout development cycle.
- Recruit, review portfolios and interview applicants.
Qualifications
- 5 plus years industry experience animating at a high level with 2 shipped titles or equivalent in film.
- Expertise within the Principles of Animation with high quality timing, weight, and acting skills.
- Expert understanding of character motion in a range of styles.
- Experience animating in 3D Software, such as 3DSMax or Maya.
- Must have a passion to create the best quality artwork possible for any game genre.
- Task driven, self-motivated & proactive.
- Adept to changing requirements.
- Must have a positive attitude and be a team player.
- Provide Samples of your animation on DVD, CD, or online with a clear explanation of what you did.
Pluses for the ideal Candidate
- Experience as an Animation Lead, Teacher or Mentor.
- Experience with cinematic production.
- Character modeling.
- Maya-scripting.
- Havok rigging.
- Passion for Video Games.
- Pre-production skills such as Storyboarding and Animatics.
- Rigging and Point Weighting character meshes.
- Work with facial animation.
Come work with us on our exciting new titles! We offer a modern work environment, an outstanding compensation and benefits package, a fun, team environment, impressively affordable living, and an exceptional quality of life!
Interested? Apply now.
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