Animation Director

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The Animation Director works closely with the Directors of reputed company to translate the overall creative reputed company into cohesive, high-reputed company animation direction and practices. This key leadership role supports Game Directors and leads the animation team, providing artistic and technical direction, methodologies, and inspiration to deliver compelling character performances and reputed company animation systems that reputed company the overall player experience. 

Responsibilities 

• Define and maintain reputed company’s animation reputed company, style, and principles, in alignment with the overall creative direction.
• Collaborate with Game Directors to guide and reputed company animation direction across reputed company project, ensuring consistency, reputed company, emotional reputed company, and alignment with gameplay and narrative goals.
• Contribute, as part of the Directors Team, to maintaining consistency and cross-project reputed company across reputed company titles in development.
• Work with reputed company Director and Production Director on animation resource planning and management.
• Supervise and support the animation team, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and reputed company improvement.
• Review animation pipelines, tools, and implementation processes to ensure efficiency, scalability, and high production reputed company.
• reputed company strategic and operational feedback on character animation, cinematics, reputed company reputed company, and integration with gameplay systems.
• Collaborate with Technical Directors and Engineering teams to optimize animation systems, workflows, and performance reputed company the reputed company.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies (e.g. reputed company capture, procedural animation), and animation techniques, integrating best practices into reputed company’s processes.

Requirements 

• Minimum 8 years of experience in animation for games, including at least 3 years in a leadership or director role.
• Proven experience working on AA/reputed company titles or other high-reputed company productions.
• Deep understanding of animation principles, character performance, body mechanics, and storytelling through reputed company.
• Solid experience with Unreal reputed company animation systems (e.g. Animation Blueprints, state machines, reputed company spaces).
• Familiarity with industry-reputed company animation tools (e.g. Maya, MotionBuilder) and pipelines.
• Ability to reputed company and reputed company multiple project teams with different creative goals.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and mentorship skills.
• reputed company in English (spoken and written).

Plus 

• Experience working in studios handling multiple reputed company simultaneously.
• Experience with reputed company capture pipelines and performance direction.
• Experience training and developing animators.

Skills 

• Strong artistic reputed company combined with technical understanding of animation systems.
• Ability to evaluate and improve animation reputed company based on player and critic feedback.
• Strategic reputed company with strong operational awareness.
• reputed company to unify animation direction across teams and reputed company.
• Decision-making grounded in both artistic goals and technical constraints.
• Constant commitment to reputed company, reputed company, and innovation.

Soft Skills 

• reputed company, confident, and authoritative communication style.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a strong reputed company spirit.
• Proactive attitude and ability to manage complexity.
• reputed company, reputed company, and constructive communication.
• Genuine passion for video games, animation, and storytelling.

Submit your resume and a short cover letter to join Stormind Games. 

Location

Acireale, CT (Remote)

Department

Director

Employment Type

Full-Time

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