Animator

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Animator 

You are an expert animator with excellent working knowledge of Unreal Engine 4 and its animation pipelines. We are San Diego Studio, a passionate team within the PlayStation family who provides world-class content, development, and services to our PlayStation fans. Our studio is made up of game industry professionals and we are looking for a highly-motivated and creative animator to join the team.

In this role you will collaborate with a versatile team of 3D artists, C++ programmers, and other Unreal developers and designers to build fluid, life-like animations. You will get the chance to demonstrate your knowledge of animation principles and character motions through a blend of key-frame animation and motion capture.

Why work when you can play? This is life at PlayStation!

Requirements

• Build high-quality third-person combat animations, human ambient animation and creature animations, craft and edit conversations and cinematic sequences, and create dialog and facial expression animations.
• You will set up camera animation and framing for gameplay and in-game cinematic sequences, animate weapons, vehicles, and other non-character assets, and implement animations in Unreal Engine, using tools such as the animation blueprint system, blend spaces and animation montages.
• You will team up with the artists and engineers to establish and refine the animation pipeline, and track and maintain animation status throughout development.

Skills

• 4+ years' industry experience
• Advanced knowledge of Maya or equivalent software
• Experience implementing animations in UE4
• Experience with gameplay and character animation, setup, rigging and skinning
• Experience with animation state machines
• A deep understanding of animation pipelines and the processes involved from concept to in-game implementation
• Keen understanding of animation production pipelines for character animation, motion capture animation, and technical animation
• You will work closely with multiple departments, including but not limited to Motion Capture, Rigging, Animation, Art, and Production teams.
• You will share your work for feedback, and offer productive opinions while evaluating the work of others
• Open and available to build a strong rapport with leads, supervisors, and technical artists to maintain and improve data quality
• Be flexible to changes in direction, yet work within defined procedures

Bonus Skills

• Motionbuilder and HIK pipeline experience.
• Understanding of at least one source control system, such as Perforce Ability to work well on a small team in a fluid, dynamic environment Exposure to Agile Scrum.

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