Junior Level Animator CG Jobs
Job Description
Summary
This is a unique opportunity that will allow you to work with the very best games and film production teams in the industry on many levels!
Job Qualifications:
- Strong technical abilities using and animating in Autodesk Maya (Maya experience required).
- Strong character animation background, including dialogue and emotionally driven work.
- Solid sense of storytelling, emotion, and character development.
- Ability to quickly and effectively solve problems and resolve any hurdles that present themselves while working to create the best animation possible.
- 2+ years of experience in facial animation or dialogue and emotion-driven animation and/or 2+ years of experience in body animation including advanced motion (fighting, etc.).
- Experience working in video games is a plus, especially in Cinematic Animation.
- Must be able to provide a demo reel or examples of professional work with a breakdown of your contributions to the shots, and an accompanying resume.
Responsibilities:
- Realistic and stylized facial animation of emotionally driven characters for a AAA game.
- Realistic and stylized body animation from Motion Capture and Hand Key.
- Realistic animation of photorealistic characters using motion capture data, with the ability to push and embellish character emotion and storytelling.
- Ability to communicate emotional arcs and tell a story through nuanced facial performance and character acting.
- Ability to learn new programs and pipelines quickly and effectively. (Experience in Faceware or Dynamixyz is a plus but not required).
- Proactive and driven, seeking out tasks remaining to be finished and actively seeking opportunities to learn.
- Open to learning and implementing technical processes and pipelines in the animation process to be able to get to a first pass, so more time can be spent on detailed animation clean up.
- Strong communicator and collaborator, able to work efficiently with a team.
- Highly organized and diligent, able to meet quick deadlines while producing high quality animation.
We are accepting only local candidates to Los Angeles or San Francisco area at this time.
Please send your CV along with Portfolio to jobs@counterpunchstudios.com
About Company
Founded in 2004, Virtuos is a leading content production company specializing in video game development and 3D art production. With operations in Singapore, China, Vietnam, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, Ireland and the United States, we are home to over 2,000 full-time professionals.
Virtuos is on a mission to shape the future of game creation, by sourcing the brightest global talent in art, engineering and game design, equipping them with industry-leading technologies, tools and technology, and empowering future game creators to collaborate with the best game companies globally.
Having worked with 18 of the top 20 entertainment companies across the globe, we continue to offer our art and co-development expertise to the biggest franchises in the world.