Cinematic Animator for Narrative-Driven Games

Take-Two Interactive; Massachusetts; Sur place; USD 71 000 - 123 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Ghost Story Games is seeking a talented Cinematic Animator to join Judas, a narrative-driven project led by Ken Levine. You will design and implement cinematic pipelines, lead animation blueprints, level sequences, and scripting to support both gameplay and storytelling.

You will collaborate with audio, lighting, animation, and narrative design teams, optimize performance, and help shape emotional fidelity and dramatic storytelling across the game.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of development experience in the game industry with recent hands-on implementation experience.
• Strong understanding of timing and pacing of narrative delivery.
• Contributed to at least one shipped title recognized for its strong narrative and/or mission design.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
• Excellent visual scripting and/or programming skills.
• Strong investigative and debugging skills.
• Passion for narrative first-person shooters.

Responsabilités

• Design extensible pipelines and tooling for cinematic and narrative content, enabling cross-disciplinary teams to deliver high-quality experiences with minimal engineering support.
• Lead efforts involving animation blueprints, animation montages, level sequences, and blueprint scripting to support both gameplay and cinematic goals.
• Provide technical direction for character animation integration and runtime control, focusing on improving emotional fidelity and storytelling impact.
• Collaborate closely with audio, lighting, animation, and narrative design teams to build systems that unify presentation layers and enhance dramatic storytelling.
• Drive performance optimization, reliability, and scalability of all cinematic systems to support long-term project goals and creative iteration.

Connaissances

Game dev experience

Narrative timing

Shipped title

Teamwork

Visual scripting

Debugging

Narrative FPS

Outils

Perforce

Description du poste

Ghost Story Games is seeking a talented Cinematic Animator to join Judas, a narrative-driven project led by Ken Levine. You will design and implement cinematic pipelines, lead animation blueprints, level sequences, and scripting to support both gameplay and storytelling.

You will collaborate with audio, lighting, animation, and narrative design teams, optimize performance, and help shape emotional fidelity and dramatic storytelling across the game.