Animator

Ballistic Moon - Farnborough, UK

Ballistic Moon are on the lookout for an Animator to join their team!

Ballistic Moon is a new independent game studio, based in the South East of England. They are a small passionate team of highly experienced developers, focused on creating exceptional and innovative games for next generation platforms. They are currently working with a AAA publisher in the early stages of pre-production for a major new project as well as creating their own IP, and require additional team members to help realise their shared ambition.

This role requires a creative animator with a technical skillset, proficient problem solving capabilities and a comprehensive understanding of pipelines. You will be responsible for delivering benchmark-level animation work and will report to the Lead Animator.


In this role, you will...
 

• Deliver high-quality animation
• Be an advocate for industry-leading standards and keep abreast of practices and peer products
• Create in-studio animation and help oversee outsourced animation as required
• Create well written animation research documentation as needed
• Work with Producers and the Lead animator to ensure a realistic project scope

For this role you'll need...
 

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills
• A high personal work standard and be comfortable delivering benchmark animation for the studio
• Working experience and hands-on knowledge of rigging, motion capture optimisation and key framed animation in a real time environment such as games or VR
• Extensive knowledge of animation in cinematic, traditional or games media
• An ability to work effectively with outsource teams and provide clear and easy to follow guidance
• To be able to own implementation of animation from start to finish
• A positive and grounded attitude
• Ability to communicate key ideas both creatively and technically
• To respond well to feedback and iterate as required
• To be able to work remotely.
• A friendly, enthusiastic, and collaborative nature

You'll also have...
 

• Previous experience as an animator
• An interesting portfolio showcasing a solid knowledge of character animation and animation theory
• In depth animation experience in Maya
• 2+ years games industry experience
• Shipped at least one project throughout development cycle on console or PC
• Comfortability presenting animation work, updates, and pre-viz work to the development team
• A passion for games with a good understanding of the games industry, development cycles and professional workflows

Bonus points if you have...
 

• Working experience in UE4, Unity and in-house game engines
• A background with motion capture pipelines
• Knowledge and experience with camera animation and a keen interest in cinematography
• Previous roles within an agile development methodology

Interested? Want to know more?

For more information regarding this vacancy please contact Jordan Langley at jordan.langley@aswift.com or call +44 (0)1709 834 777 now!