Senior Gameplay Animator: Dynamic Combat & Open World

Content Creators; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 10,596,000 - 246,425,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Insomniac Games is seeking a Senior Gameplay Animator to create high-quality gameplay animations for characters, working closely with design, programming, and art teams to integrate animations into the engine using Maya and proprietary tools.

You will help translate the creative vision into believable motion, exploit motion capture data and hand-key animation, and contribute to hero traversal, combat, boss fights, and open-world sequences, with a strong emphasis

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Maya, Insomniac proprietary tools (preferred), and a knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• MotionBuilder and Adobe Premiere a plus.
• Knowledge of common state machine flow in any game engine required.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality animations for gameplay characters, ensuring alignment with artistic direction and technical standards.
• Collaborate with Designers and Programmers to implement animations in engine using expert skills in Maya and proprietary engine tools.
• Independently troubleshoot and resolve issues that arise.
• Ability to utilize motion capture data and hand key animation to create believable characters.
• Gameplay responsibilities can include hero traversal, combat, boss, gameplay camera cinematography, mission and open world animations at the highest level using advanced skills in game engine tools.
• Work with the Animation team to guarantee cohesive execution of the established animation direction across the game, providing constructive feedback as necessary.
• Communicate effectively with other disciplines, including Designers, Programmers, Writers, Project Managers, Art, Audio, Character and Rigging teams, to resolve issues and achieve project goals.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Skills

Animation

Character rigging

Gameplay scripting

Team collaboration

Tools

Maya

MotionBuilder

Adobe Premiere

Insomniac proprietary tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Insomniac Games is seeking a Senior Gameplay Animator to create high-quality gameplay animations for characters, working closely with design, programming, and art teams to integrate animations into the engine using Maya and proprietary tools.

You will help translate the creative vision into believable motion, exploit motion capture data and hand-key animation, and contribute to hero traversal, combat, boss fights, and open-world sequences, with a strong emphasis