Animator

What you’ll do

What you bring

• Three to five years of professional experience as a character or 3D animator.
• Strong keyframe animation skills in Autodesk Maya.
• A showreel demonstrating polished character or creature performance with clear evidence of your own contribution.
• Solid command of animation principles: timing, weight, spacing, arcs, staging and appeal.
• Experience delivering animation into Unity or Unreal.
• Comfortable working with rigs and raising rigging issues constructively.
• Ability to take direction, iterate quickly and deliver to a high standard within production deadlines. Ability to take direction, iterate at pace and hit delivery dates.
• Clear communication and collaborative approach.

Nice to Have

• Shipped games, AR or VR titles, or high end interactive experiences.
• Motion capture cleanup experience.
• Facial animation or lip sync work.
• Familiarity with Blender and/or iClone.
• Showreel Requirement
• Finished character or creature animation rather than work in progress passes.
• Your specific contribution to each shot.
• A range of performance: body mechanics, acting and interaction.
• Analog is building things the world has not seen before, and animation is a big part of how people first connect with and experience them.

Showreel Requirement

Qualifications

• Three to five years of professional experience as a character or 3D animator.
• Strong keyframe animation skills in Autodesk Maya.
• A showreel demonstrating polished character or creature performance with clear evidence of your own contribution.
• Solid command of animation principles: timing, weight, spacing, arcs, staging and appeal.
• Experience delivering animation into Unity or Unreal.
• Comfortable working with rigs and raising rigging issues constructively.
• Ability to take direction, iterate quickly and deliver to a high standard within production deadlines. Ability to take direction, iterate at pace and hit delivery dates.
• Clear communication and collaborative approach.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality keyframe animation for real-time, interactive characters and creatures, with strong personality.
• Animate cycles, transitions, interactions and one off performance beats to a polished, final standard.
• Apply expert understanding of timing, weight, spacing, arcs, posing, staging, anticipation, follow-through and appeal. Iterate quickly while maintaining a consistently high quality bar
• Prepare and export animation into Unity, working inside engine and performance budgets.
• Work with engineers on animation state machines, transitions, blend trees/spaces, looping behaviour and runti Maintain consistent naming conventions, file structures, frame ranges and export settings in line with pipeline standards.
• Partner with riggers early, stress test rigs and give clear feedback on controls, deformation and usability.
• Work with 3D Artist and engineers to unblock animation dependencies.
• Support motion capture sessions and clean up captured data where needed.
• Maintain and extend existing animation sets without losing consistency of style.
• Build reference libraries and study live action, human and animal motion to raise the bar on quality.