Senior Open-World Creature Cinematic Animator

CD Projekt Group; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 212,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical healthcare

Life insurance

Annual screenings for cancer

Job summary

CD Projekt RED is seeking a skilled Senior Cinematic Open World Creature Animator for a 2-year fixed-term contract. You’ll craft animations for NPCs, animals, and environmental interactions to expand immersive storytelling in our open world.

Work with Open World, Gameplay, Narrative teams to deliver systemic, responsive animations, using motion capture and keyframes to bring routines, behaviors, and interactions to life.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience in animation for games or related real-time applications.
• Solid understanding of animation principles with focus on movement realism and behavioral variation.
• Experience with keyframe animation for animals, creatures or realistic character performances.
• Experience with motion capture data and integration into gameplay contexts.
• Familiarity with implementing animation in a real-time game engine and working with blueprints, state machines or other animation systems.
• Proficiency with MotionBuilder and/or Maya.

Responsibilities

• Being a game developer first — thinking about how your animations will look, feel, and respond within dynamic gameplay and systemic world scenarios.
• Taking ownership of animation content for a specific creature in the game world, and collaborating in a multi-disciplinary team to deliver immersive open world experiences.
• Delivering work that aligns with the overall artistic and narrative direction of the project — even outside traditional cinematics.
• Creating final, high-quality animation assets for creature routines, behaviors, environmental interactions and narrative-driven systemic events — using both motion capture and keyframe techniques.
• Collaborating on a daily basis with the Cinematic Animation Lead and other departments to ensure animations serve gameplay and worldbuilding goals.
• Estimating time required to complete your tasks and delivering on schedule with attention to implementation details and requirements.
• Rapidly prototyping and iterating animations to test ideas and bring systemic interactions to life.
• Offering creative and technical solutions to everyday animation challenges, especially those tied to systemic or emergent behaviors.
• Sharing knowledge with the team and supporting less experienced animators through feedback and mentorship.

Skills

Fluent English

Strong communication

Problem-solving mindset

Team player

Animation for games

Movement realism

Tools

MotionBuilder

Maya

Unreal Engine

Job description

CD Projekt RED is seeking a skilled Senior Cinematic Open World Creature Animator for a 2-year fixed-term contract. You’ll craft animations for NPCs, animals, and environmental interactions to expand immersive storytelling in our open world.

Work with Open World, Gameplay, Narrative teams to deliver systemic, responsive animations, using motion capture and keyframes to bring routines, behaviors, and interactions to life.