Lead Animator: In-Game & Cinematic

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PlayStation Studios Creative Arts

Responsibilities:  

• Ability to create high quality animation content in Maya
• Help mentor and grow other animators’ abilities
• Serve as a positive role model for the team to follow in attitude, ability, proactivity, communication, and productivity within the department
• Work with design and engineering to create new awesome, mind-blowing systemic animations 
  Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed 

Requirements & Skills: 

• Minimum of 1 shipped AAA game as a Senior Gameplay Animator (or equivalent) 
• Minimum of 5 years working in the video-games industry
• Produce very high-quality animation. Be able to provide accurate and clear feedback for others 
• Passion for pushing the envelope of interactive character animation 
• Ability to plan, setup, and direct motion capture shoots independently and efficiently 
• Good general technical knowledge of how games work 
• Must be comfortable using a script editor
• Excellent problem solver / fire fighter 
• Highly motivated and proactive with a CAN DO attitude 
• Inspire teamwork and collaboration across the department 
• Proactive communicator within animation and other departments 
• Take responsibility for assignments and proactively identifies new tasks to take on 
• Finish tasks quickly. Is an expert at prioritization and letting others know when priorities must change 
• Never finds themselves idle and is always proactively finding useful things to work on to progress the company and team 
• Deep knowledge of Maya: layers, time/trax editor, mocap tools
• In engine animation layering knowledge
• Familiar with one of the modern animation systems: Unreal, Morpheme, Unity, etc 

BONUS SKILLS: 

• Python knowledge 
• C, C#, or C++ knowledge 

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