Senior Cinematic Animator
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Summary
Techland (Dying Light) seeks a Senior Cinematic Animator in Warsaw to create narrative cutscenes for its AAA games — from early layout and blocking through final character animation, including mocap shoots and in-engine implementation. Core tool is Autodesk MotionBuilder; Unreal/Unity and Maya/Blender are pluses.
The main responsibility in this role is creating compelling cutscenes from initial prototype to final quality. You will bring narrative and dialogue scenes to life - from early layout and blocking all the way to final character and object animation by:
- Crafting and polishing narrative scenes across every phase of production,
- Participating in mocap shoots and integrating capture data into production-ready scenes,
- Working in close collaboration with narrative, design, and art teams to deliver on the creative vision,
- Implementing animations and cutscene setups in-engine while meeting performance and technical requirements.
- Perfect knowledge of animation rules,
- Very good practical knowledge of the Autodesk MotionBuilder program,
- Experience with working with motion capture data,
- Extensive experience in the game industry (experience in working on AAA games, published on new generation consoles),
- Portfolio examples of animated cutscenes (based on motion capture data)
- Independence, communicativeness, proactivity, good organization of own work,
- Fluency in English,
- Authentic interest in video games (knowledge of trends, ability to analyze games in terms of handling narration).
Nice to have:
- Experience in working with animation systems (for example Unreal, Unity, or other similar ones).
- Good practical knowledge of the Autodesk Maya or Blender
What we offer:
- A dedicated Buddy who will support you in your daily tasks.
- A wide array of benefits: private medical care, life insurance, pro-health campaigns, gifts for different occasions.
- An outstanding work atmosphere in a highly-skilled team of professionals, with flexible working hours, no dress code, and full support of the dedicated HR Business Partner.
- Many opportunities for personal development: a dedicated development budget for each employee, extra two paid days for training and CSR, stable career paths, extensive internal and external training, and financing of English and Polish language classes.
- State-of-the-art offices filled with chillout zones, a fully equipped kitchen, a gym (Wrocław office), and a free car park (Warsaw limited amount of space).