Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the animation team, fostering a collaborative and creative work environment.
• Set the artistic direction and animation standards for the team, ensuring consistency and quality across projects.
• Oversee the entire animation pipeline, from concept and storyboarding to final implementation in the game engine.
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure smooth integration of animations into the gameplay experience.
• Create and oversee the animation of characters, creatures, and other assets, infusing them with personality and emotion.
• Develop believable and fluid animations that enhance the player’s immersion in the game world.
• Create animations for environmental elements, objects, and interactive elements, adding life and realism to the game world.
• Collaborate with level designers and artists to ensure seamless integration of animations into the environments.
• Utilize both motion capture and keyframe animation techniques to achieve realistic and expressive character movements.
• Lead MoCap sessions and direct actors to capture performances that align with the game’s artistic vision.
• Stay up-to-date with animation tools and technology, advocating for the adoption of new tools to improve workflow and efficiency.
• Work closely with technical artists and programmers to implement animation systems in the game engine.
• Provide and receive feedback from internal and external sources to improve animations iteratively.
• Collaborate with game designers to ensure animations enhance gameplay mechanics and communicate game feedback to players.