Job Description
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At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day – whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
We are in the early stages of development on an ambitious, unannounced mobile title and we’re assembling a team of talented and passionate game makers to join us on this exciting journey!
As a Senior member of the art team you will be influential in helping the Art Director make their artistic vision come to life. You will work in a collaborative environment to create and iterate on animations for a wide range of characters, special effects, and UI. The ideal candidate will have a portfolio displaying cartoony animation with personality, as well as other game animations made for mobile games.
- Work closely with the Art Director to deliver the highest quality in game keyframed character animations in Maya and Unity
- Implement animations into engine with full ownership of your work
- Be involved in the asset creation process, from concept and design, through to modeling, rigging and final animation
- Create excellent visual effects and hypnotic animations for use during game play
- Collaborate with Tech Art and Code teams to ensure pipelines and tools are effective, optimized and capable of delivery
- Collaborate across teams to develop the gameplay experience
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of anatomy and motion in all of the work you oversee or create
- Work with junior and external artists to ensure high quality, on style asset creation and delivery
- Produce visual benchmarks and production guides, breaking down technical specifications to reproduce animations within style
- Collaborate with tech art and modeling team on rig iteration for believable and cartoony character movement
- Work closely with Production to coordinate animation resources, schedules and priorities based on project needs
- Consistently strive to exceed the highest quality standards of the studio
- You will be able to demonstrate a history of creating stunning animations while maintaining visual and functional specifications for game mechanics
- Experience working within Unity
- Experience working in mobile gaming
- Experience in shipping multiple titles in your career as an Sr Animator
- In-depth experience working with animation graphs and state machines
- Exhibit a strong understanding of the fundamental principles of animation
- Proficiency within Maya or Max (our pipeline is Maya)
- Superior communication, organizational, time management and interpersonal skills
- Positive attitude and an ability to receive and provide objective feedback
- Experienced working with an IP
- Experience with character rigging and skinning
- Experience using Maya animation tools
- Enjoy animation and IPs with personality
- A passion for games
How to Apply
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