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Insomniac Events · 9 hours ago

Senior Animator

Insomniac is seeking a Senior Animator responsible for animating gameplay characters and assets at the highest quality level. The role includes mentoring other animators, collaborating with animation directors, and ensuring clear communication across departments to meet performance targets.

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Responsibilities

Creates animation content at a consistently expert quality level delivered on schedule and meeting performance targets
Works with Animation Directors and Lead Animators to establish animation style and with the gameplay animation team to maintain a cohesive animation style for the game, providing constructive feedback as needed
Mentors, tutors, and aids others based on documented workflows
Ensures Designers and Programmers understand the creative direction and identifies required animation assets for characters and scenes through clear cross-department communication
Provides support for both independent and embedded Co-Dev resources and organizes work for Ex-Dev resources including creating briefs and reviewing and integrating deliveries
Experiments with and evaluates techniques to improve efficiency, workflow, and visual fidelity in our animation pipeline
Assists in establishing and maintaining performance targets and collaborates with other departments to ensure animation is implemented appropriately in the game engine
Assists with creating documentation in Confluence, or equivalent
Assists with tasking in JIRA, or equivalent
Effectively communicates with the Animation Director and Project Management to report progress and ensure timely completion of deliverables
Other duties may be assigned

Qualification

MayaAnimation principlesInsomniac proprietary toolsMotionBuilderAdobe PremiereMicrosoft Office SuiteCross-department communicationMentoringProblem-solving

Required

Five to seven years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
Extensive animation training and experience covering all animation principles and techniques
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume
Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
Advanced knowledge of Maya
Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred

Knowledge of Insomniac proprietary tools
MotionBuilder and Adobe Premiere a plus
Knowledge of common state machine flow in any game engine a plus

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision

Company

Insomniac Events

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Insomniac, Inc. is an Entertainment company based out of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA, United States probably best known for promoting EDC

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Pasquale Rotella
CEO / Founder
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Maureen Valker-Barlow
SVP Partnerships
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