Senior Cinematic Animator — One-Year Contract (CAD 85k-105k)

Ubisoft; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Ubisoft is seeking a Senior Cinematic Animator to deliver high-quality animations for cinematic and scripted events in our games. You will enhance motion capture, key-frame, and integrate sequences in collaboration with directors and engineers.

You will mentor peers, polish performances, and craft previs from scripts, while ensuring smooth camera work and scene composition. Remote/hybrid options will be considered based on project needs.

Qualifications

• Strong experience creating cinematic animations for video games.
• Excellent grasp for storytelling, acting and cinematography.
• Understanding of game cinematic production pipelines and workflows.
• Relevant 2D and 3D software experience - MotionBuilder, Maya, 3DS Max, Photoshop, Premiere, Final Cut.
• Good collaboration with members of the animation team and other team members on the project.
• Must be open to direction, criticism and able to accept change.
• Extensive animation experience with hand-keyed disciplines, experience with motion capture a plus.
• Attention to detail and experience solving technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Cinematic and Animation Directors, animators, scripters, tech team and other departments to create our Cinematics and scripted events.
• Work in coordination with animation lead to help mentor and build a collaboration within the team
• Enhance and polish character performances (body and facial) from video and motion capture.
• Must have an excellent understanding of the animation principles (posing, timing, balance and weight) to create realistic and believable key-frame animations.
• Construct previs from story scripts and/or storyboards, and have the ability to create scene layouts, staging, camera and editing.
• Communicate with the Cinematic and Animation Directors for reviews and feedback.
• Work closely with scripters and the animation TDs to ensure the quality of the integration of the animations.
• Detect inconsistencies or bugs and validate that the cinematic scene plays correctly.

Skills

Cinematic animation

Storytelling

Character performance

Collaboration

Motion capture

Tools

MotionBuilder

Maya

3DS Max

Photoshop

Premiere

Final Cut

Job description

Ubisoft is seeking a Senior Cinematic Animator to deliver high-quality animations for cinematic and scripted events in our games. You will enhance motion capture, key-frame, and integrate sequences in collaboration with directors and engineers.

You will mentor peers, polish performances, and craft previs from scripts, while ensuring smooth camera work and scene composition. Remote/hybrid options will be considered based on project needs.