Job Overview

Job Title Gameplay Animator

Hiring Organization Counterplay Games

Company Website https://www.counterplaygames.com/

Remote Locations Worldfwide

Job Type Remote, Full-Time

Counterplay Games is looking for experienced gameplay animators to work on a new IP.

Help us create an exciting new action-packed third person game!As a gameplay animator, you will give life to a variety of creatures, giving birth to hellish monsters and work with the gameplay team to achieve a compelling rogue-lite shooter experience for the player.

Job Responsibilities

Create believable enemy animations, ranging from locomotion, idles, taunts… to combat and hit reactions, either from keyframe or mocap data.

Come up with original and fresh ideas on how to animate those characters. Expose those ideas to the Lead animator and help prepare potential mocap shoot.

Integrate your assets in the engine and ensure the animations work correctly in game.

Play the build and have a critical eye on how we can improve our character animation to create the best experience possible.

Participate in weekly team reviews, receive & offer constructive feedback to the rest of the team.

Review incoming rigs and share potential feedback with the rigging team.

Job Requirements

Expert knowledge of Maya and/or MotionBuilder

Strong understanding of gameplay animation technicalities (root motion, pose sharing, transitions & looping cycles, additive animation…) and keen eye for great motion (timing & spacing, pose readability, exaggeration vs. believability, responsiveness, anticipation, recovery.)

Showreel demonstrating true interest for game anim (reels with only acting shots will be ignored)

Past experience with a game engine. Experience with Unreal Engine is a HUGE plus!

Experience with motion capture is a plus! (editing, acting and/or directing.)

Experience animating creatures is a plus!

How To Apply

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