Senior Cinematic Animator – CONTRACT

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🔥 12 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $76 - $86 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🗿 3D Artist

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Insomniac Games

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1994

🎮 Gaming

Gaming

Insomniac Games is a renowned video game developer known for creating popular titles such as Marvel's Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Ratchet & Clank. The company emphasizes crafting games that convey positive messages and themes of friendship, self-sacrifice, and overcoming evil. Insomniac Games prides itself on maintaining an inclusive workplace culture, ensuring that their creative outputs reflect the same values they uphold internally. With a focus on both console and PC gaming, Insomniac Games continues to be a leader in the gaming industry.

📋 Description

• Develop high-quality cinematic animation content using motion capture and hand-key techniques • Collaborate with Animation Directors and Lead Animators to design cinematics aligned with the game's vision and cinematography style • Help establish and maintain performance standards and integrate cinematics into the game engine • Refine body and facial character animation for lifelike scenes • Participate in cinematic team feedback sessions and incorporate critique • Apply animation and camera principles to create realistic, immersive cinematics • Use Jira and Flow to track progress and manage workload • Report progress and roadblocks to the Animation Director and Project Management • Perform additional related responsibilities as assigned • Mentor more junior artists

🎯 Requirements

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States • Advanced knowledge of Maya • Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite • Ability to calculate figures and amounts and apply basic algebra and geometry concepts • MotionBuilder knowledge is a plus • Adobe Premiere knowledge is a plus • Knowledge of common state machine flow in any game engine is a plus • Insomniac proprietary tools experience is preferred • No supervisory responsibilities; role mentors more junior artists

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Background checks conducted at the offer stage