Description

Our client has over 1100 employees in 11 countries and sales operations in another 91 countries they are one of the industry leaders!

Due to continued success they now require a LEAD ANIMATOR to join their Studio in London.

Job Description:
The candidate should be a strong communicator, must be approachable and
able to demonstrate the ability to lead an animation team and work closely with a multi-faceted game team of programmers, artists and designers.

The candidate must have excellent knowledge of the principles of animation and also share the passion and enthusiasm to bring these skills to a 3D game environment.

The candidate should have the ability to produce high quality animation using hand keyed animation techniques and ensure animation tasks are carried out on time and in the correct style. Character rigging skills are also an advantage.

Your Responsibilities will include:
- Leading a team of animators in completing project deliverables
- Define best practice in conjunction with Art Director
- Collaborate with the Art Director to help set the quality bar for animation asset creation
- Supervise regular animation team review meetings
- Maintain a positive outlook on the project, even in difficult circumstances and project this to your team
- Inspire, motivate, and mentor other animators in best practices, processes, and procedures pertaining to production
- Implement animations into the game engine using in house tools
- Work with Programming and Design departments to ensure animations properly fit the gameplay requirements

Job Required Skills:
- Strong understanding of classic animation principals and fundamentals (Squash & stretch, staging, timing and motion, anticipation, exaggeration, follow through, arcs & appeal)
- Ability to create realistic and stylised character animation
- Understanding and ability to communicate the principals of body movement, and a critical eye when appraising artwork
- Understanding of character pipeline from modeling, rigging and skinning through to animation production and final implementation ingame
- Understands camera principles and cinematic processes
- Ability to learn fast, take initiative with assigned tasks and follow through creative and technical troubleshooting

Attractive salary, amazing benefits and a great career opportunity are on offer for the successful candidate.

To ensure a speedy application please email your up to date CV and Show Reel to officemanager@opmjobs.com or call me Jon direct on +44 (0) 1206 214425 if you have any queries.

So what are you waiting for? Don\'t miss out on this great career opportunity!