Our client an AAA Studio based in Malta is looking for a Senior Animator to join their established team.
 
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Work directly with animators, designers, modelers, & programmers to deliver excellent
character movements, facial animations, mechanics & cutscenes.
• Working with programmers to improve toolkit, systems, establish rigging standards.
• Create rigs & skinning for animated organic and mechanical objects.

Essential Skills :
• An understanding of IK, realtime skinning, physics limitations and possibilities.
• Understanding of real-world kinematics and ability to replicate physical movement using a mix
of simulation tools and baked skeletal animations.
• To be able to come up and utilize skinning tricks (folded shoulders, 2-bone ropes).
• Familiar with mocap and hand created animations.
• Experienced with human, exotic, and mechanical characters/objects.
• At least  5 years of experience in rigging, animation, skinning, weighting and physics.
• A minimum of one shipped title on consoles.
• Solid experience in applying modern interactive character animation techniques such as
blend-trees, IK, HFSM & partial-body animation.

Desirable Skills:
• Procedural/physically-altered animation techniques 
• Cinematics & facial animation

 Do you want to hear more? Apply or Send your CV direct and we will arrange a confidential chat & advise of the full spec details.