Senior Gameplay Animator — Hybrid/Remote + Relocation

CD Project; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 212,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Private medical healthcare

Life insurance

Annual screenings

Gifts and swag

Job summary

CD Projekt is seeking a Senior Gameplay Animator for a 2-year fixed-term contract in Warsaw. You’ll collaborate with Gameplay Designers, Programmers and Technical Animators to craft lifelike animations for players and horse characters, aligning with the game vision.

You’ll lead animation workflows, push motion-capture driven assets, and help shape animal movement systems across the project.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with motion capture data and key-frame animation.
• Both Technical and Artistically oriented.
• Strong understanding of animal locomotion biomechanics, with a particular focus on horse movement.
• Proven experience animating animals and/or creatures.
• Production proven game experience with at least one title released.

Responsibilities

• Delivering in-game animations using Autodesk Maya, MotionBuilder and Unreal Engine as the main art creation and implementation tools.
• Establishing and maintaining animation asset creation workflows, folders, naming conventions and other engine-related organizational structures.
• Co-developing multiple playable and non-playable animation systems, including MotionMatching Systems, Blendspaces, animation graphs, procedural animation setups, and engine-specific auxiliary data such as notification and synchronization events, and additional data settings files.

Skills

Motion capture data

Key-frame animation

Animal locomotion biomechanics

Gameplay design understanding

Strong communication

Tools

Autodesk Maya

MotionBuilder

Unreal Engine

Job description

CD Projekt is seeking a Senior Gameplay Animator for a 2-year fixed-term contract in Warsaw. You’ll collaborate with Gameplay Designers, Programmers and Technical Animators to craft lifelike animations for players and horse characters, aligning with the game vision.

You’ll lead animation workflows, push motion-capture driven assets, and help shape animal movement systems across the project.