Remote Gameplay Animator — Associate

VOID Interactive Ltd; Cork; Remote; EUR 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Void Interactive is seeking an Associate Gameplay Animator to craft high-quality character animations for locomotion, traversal, combat, and other gameplay systems. You will collaborate with designers, riggers, programmers, and fellow animators to balance visual quality with responsive gameplay.

You'll work with both hand-keyed animation and motion capture data, integrate animations directly in-engine, and contribute to animation workflows while learning from senior team members in a

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional production experience or equivalent junior/game development experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Autodesk Maya, including animation layers and the Graph Editor.
• Understanding of realistic body mechanics, weight, timing, and character performance.
• Portfolio or demo reel demonstrating character animation skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Creating high-quality character animations for locomotion, traversal, combat, and other gameplay systems.
• Working with hand-keyed animation and motion capture data.
• Integrating and testing animations directly in-engine.
• Working with animation state machines, blend trees, and animation layers.
• Collaborating with designers, riggers, programmers, and fellow animators to balance visual quality with responsive gameplay.
• Supporting motion capture shoots and assisting with data cleanup.
• Testing animations in context and iterating on feedback from the team.
• Learning and applying proprietary tools and animation pipelines.

Skills

Autodesk Maya

Animation

Motion capture data

Unreal Engine

Unity

Graph Editor

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

MotionBuilder

Graph Editor

Job description

Void Interactive is seeking an Associate Gameplay Animator to craft high-quality character animations for locomotion, traversal, combat, and other gameplay systems. You will collaborate with designers, riggers, programmers, and fellow animators to balance visual quality with responsive gameplay.

You'll work with both hand-keyed animation and motion capture data, integrate animations directly in-engine, and contribute to animation workflows while learning from senior team members in a