Senior FPS Gameplay Animator — 3C Mastery, Prototyping & Lead

NetEase, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NetEase, Inc. seeks a Senior/Lead Gameplay Animator with AAA FPS experience to shape responsive character movement, 3C storytelling, and camera interactions. This hands‑on role blends craft with practical engine implementation across prototypes to final polish.

You will own features end‑to‑end, collaborate with designers, programmers, and animators, and mentor teammates while pushing animation quality and game feel to a cohesive player experience.

Qualifications

• Proven experience creating and implementing gameplay animation for AAA first‑person shooters.
• Strong portfolio showing body mechanics, weight, timing, posing, and responsive gameplay animation.
• Experience integrating animation assets into a game engine and iterating in playable builds.
• Knowledge of animation graphs, state machines, blending, and gameplay‑driven transitions.
• Ability to diagnose animation issues and collaborate with design and engineering partners.

Responsibilities

• Own gameplay animation features from concept to completion, including prototyping, asset creation, engine integration, debugging, and polish.
• Create high‑quality locomotion, directional changes, stance transitions, traversal, and combat interactions.
• Contribute to first‑person animation and its relationship with full‑body movement, weapon handling, and camera feedback.
• Refine movement responsiveness, action timing, transitions, and interruption behavior while preserving believable weight.
• Build and refine animation graphs, state machines, blend spaces, and animation layers.
• Use keyframe animation and motion‑capture workflows to meet gameplay and visual requirements.
• Evaluate work in playable builds and collaborate to resolve animation issues across disciplines.
• Work with technical animation and engineering teams to improve workflows and address runtime constraints.
• Lead‑level: guide feature planning, set quality benchmarks, provide feedback, and mentor teammates while implementing animation.

Skills

Gameplay animation

AAA FPS experience

3C (Character Controls Camera)

Animation graphs

State machines

Motion capture

Prototyping

In-game debugging

Tools

Game engine integration

Keyframe animation

Job description

NetEase, Inc. seeks a Senior/Lead Gameplay Animator with AAA FPS experience to shape responsive character movement, 3C storytelling, and camera interactions. This hands‑on role blends craft with practical engine implementation across prototypes to final polish.

You will own features end‑to‑end, collaborate with designers, programmers, and animators, and mentor teammates while pushing animation quality and game feel to a cohesive player experience.