Senior Animation Artist (Mocap) M/W/O

Sampson Europe Published: January 22, 2019
Location
Berlin, Germany
Job Type

Description

We are  looking for a Senior Animator with Mocap Experience skilled at creating realistic human performances and/or gameplay oriented animations. You will be creating high quality content utilizing both motion capture data and key animation, collaborating with different departments to create dynamic user-centric experiences, troubleshooting and solving animation issues with all departments while organizing and prioritizing animation tasks.

Responsibilities:

  • Create high quality keyframe animations
  • Clean motion capture animation data
  • Work closely with our riggers to get the best possible outcome from the mocap animations
  • Support mocap sessions at our capture studio

Qualifications:

  • A minimum of 5 years professional experience as an animator in games, film, or TV.
  • Good knowledge of game play mechanics and systems
  • Good facial animation skills and techniques, as well as Facial Capture systems
  • Excellent organizational, communication, and time management skills
  • Able to take direction and implement feedback
  • Ability to think outside the box to come up with more efficient techniques
  • Mentor other animators
  • High work ethic and self-motivated

Required Skills
Unreal Engine 4 or similar engine experience

  • proficient in Maya and Motionbuilder
  • working knowledge of Facial Capture systems (ie. FaceWare…)
  • TV, Film or Games experience
  • Must have English language skills.  German a plus.

For more information about this exciting opportunity, please get in touch.

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