Senior Gameplay Animator

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🕒 July 27

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $80.1k - $100.2k / year

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🎮 Game Engineer

👻 Ghost score 6%

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Half Mermaid

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2020

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Gaming • Media • B2C

Half Mermaid is a game development studio and publisher responsible for the interactive narrative title Immortality. The company focuses on cinematic, story-driven interactive experiences and works with creators such as Sam Barlow (creator of Her Story). Immortality is presented as an interactive trilogy about the disappearance of film star Marissa Marcel, released on platforms such as Steam and showcased at festivals (Tribeca) and industry events.

📋 Description

• Create animations for both grounded, real world human characters and inhuman characters alike • Take animations from design spec through key pose to finished animation, creating responsive but authentic motion • Collaborate with other departments to implement animations in engine

🎯 Requirements

• Have shipped a character-based game on console • High level understanding of combat and grapple animations • Fluency in Maya and Unreal Engine 5 • Strong communication skills, contributing to the productivity and success of working in a remote team environment • An appreciation for narrative and psychological horror. • Experience working with MGear • Proficiency in body and facial rigging • Experience with motion capture pipelines and interest in cutting edge technologies to reduce cost and effort for performance capture