Senior Gameplay Animator

Creative Assembly
Horsham, United Kingdom
Job type: Permanent

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Job Description

Creative Assembly are looking for an experience Gameplay Animator to join our team based at our studio in Horsham, West Sussex. This is a unique opportunity to work on our next historical tent pole feature.

As part of a focussed project team, you will bring your creativity and passion to your work and work collaboratively with Designers , Programmers and Artists to craft and implement believable in-game animations.

Key Responsibilities

As a senior animator on the historical animation team, you will work with the Lead Animator to help define realistic animation schedules, create relevant animation documentation, and ensure technical and artistic quality in our historical titles. 

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

  • Work with the Animation Lead and Designers on animation lists and requirements
  • Work alongside the Lead Animator and Animation team to create animations that bring the in-game characters and world to life
  • Assist in planning and directing mocap shoots in our bespoke Mocap studio
  • Engage in stand-ups, and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams
  • Ensure that the standard of your work is of the highest quality, judging it by its function and appearance in engine
  • Take ownership of your tasks, from Maya to their final implementation in game
  • Provide feedback and to mentor less experienced team members, so communication, approachability, and proactivity is vital in this role 

Skills & Requirements

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

Essential

  • Experience working as a 3D Animator in games
  • Knowledge of animation implementation in-engine
  • Able to clean and enhance mocap data
  • Strong hand-key animation skills
  • Excellent communication skills, able to work both independently and as part of a cross discipline team
  • Ability to receive and apply critique and to contribute constructive feedback
  • Problem solver with ability to seek and suggest pipeline and gameplay mechanics improvements, and influence direction of new animation  tech
  • Self-Motivated with strong time-management skills
  • Proficient in Maya

Desirable

  • Experience developing a title from start to finish
  • Interest in Historical Total War\Strategy Games
  • Motion Capture experience
  • Knowledge of rigging
  • Motion Builder experience
  • Experience of game engines such as Unreal, Unity   

Note: Applications for this role must include a portfolio/showreel (or link to a portfolio/showreel). Applications that do not have this information will not be considered. 

Additional Information

  • Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

About the Company

Creative Assembly is one of the UK's leading games development studios, founded in 1987 and located in West Sussex, UK and in Sofia, Bulgaria. With a heritage of award-winning AAA titles, including the multi-million selling Total War™ series, Creative Assembly continues to build an impressive portfolio of games and world-renowned partnerships; working with Games Workshop on Total War™: WARHAMMER®, Wargaming Alliance on Total War™: ARENA, Twentieth Century Fox on Alien: Isolation, plus 343 Industries and Microsoft on Halo Wars 2. Creative Assembly has, with their exceptionally talented team of over 500, amassed a wealth of awards, including recent accolades from BAFTA, Music+Sound and Develop’s Industry Excellence awards.