Senior Animator

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Rooster Teeth Games is looking for a talented 3D Animator who can bring life, emotion and style to characters and props in our upcoming game titles. The ideal candidate will have a strong animation background, multiple game credits and a passion for shipping high quality products with a fun, collaborative team.

Rooster Teeth Games is a small, collaborative team with a good mix of industry veterans and new recruits. Our number one goal is to create high quality games that excite and inspire our worldwide audience. Think you have what it takes to join our crew? Check out the job details below:

Responsibilites:

  • Create keyframe animations for 3D characters, weapons, and prop objects (using Maya)
  • Multi-character interaction/combat animations Facial animation for real-time cinematics
  • Setup character animation systems and controls in Unreal Engine 4
  • Collaborate with the team to ensure animations fit within technical requirements and support the overall gameplay vision

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years professional game production experience in an Animator role
  • Shipped at least 1 game title, from pre-production to final release (preferably a AAA title)
  • Solid understanding of the principles of animation (squash/stretch, timing, overlap, anticipation, staging, appeal, etc.)
  • Impressive 3D animation reel showing a wide range of actions and emotions for humanoids, creatures, objects/props
  • Expertise in MAYA required
  • First person animation experience preferred
  • Experience with character rigging and skin weighting preferred
  • Motion capture cleanup, editing, and retargeting preferred
  • Working knowledge of Perforce (or source control equivalent)
  • Comfortable iterating on ideas using rapid prototyping techniques (blockouts, roughs)
  • Positive team-oriented attitude with excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Proactive and self-motivated (comfortable working without direct supervision)
  • Must be comfortable working in a small, highly collaborative team
  • Must be able to accept critique of your work and have the ability to embrace change
  • Must have a sense of humor

Benefits + Perks:

  • 100% Company paid health & dental benefits
  • 401(k) with a company match
  • Use what you need paid time off
  • Opportunity for career growth
  • Flexible dress code
  • Kitchen stocked with snacks
  • Pet Friendly

ABOUT ROOSTER TEETH:Rooster Teeth is a pioneering studio responsible for some of the biggest online series in history, such as the award-winning and longest-running web series, Red vs. Blue. They also produce the globally acclaimed animated series RWBY, the first western anime series to be distributed in Japan; the award-winning Rooster Teeth Podcast; and Immersion, a reality format that brings video game theory to the real world. Rooster Teeth has a massive global footprint of more than 25 million subscribers to its YouTube Network, 3 million unique monthly visitors to itsRoosterTeeth.com hub and 1.8 million registered community members. The company was founded in 2003, and is now a subsidiary of Fullscreen, Inc., a global youth media company that develops online creators and produces multi-platform entertainment experiences. Discover more at RoosterTeeth.com.

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1901 E 51st Street, Austin, TX 78723

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