Position: 3D Senior Animator
Company: N-ix
Category: Design
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

N-iX Game & VR Studio is a team of 100+ professionals delivering top-quality games and VR solutions to various game and media enterprises and startups. Among our clients are Paradox Interactive, Wargaming.net, Tempo Storm, and other established game businesses and VR startups. We aim for AAA quality of work and offer competitive benefits to our employees.

We are looking for a senior animator skilled at creating realistic and stylized animations for games and VR experiences utilizing both keyframe animation and motion capture data. The project pool is vast: mobile games, VR games and experiences, AAA projects and cinematics.

Requirements:
• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience as an animator in game development
• Strong knowledge of Autodesk Maya and Autodesk Motion Builder
• Technical skills in rigging
• Strong understanding of the principles of animation and character anatomy
• Excellent organizational, communication, and time management skills
• Able to take direction and implement feedback
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English
• High work ethic and self-motivation
• Passion for Games
• Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities:
• Creating rig/skin and animations
• Integrating and optimization content in-game engine
• Developing new pipelines for optimization working process
• Taking a part in projects estimation
• Mentorion junior and mid-level animators and providing feedback on best practices
• Working directly with the team to ensure that the product is of the highest quality

Good to have:
• Artistic skills in storyboarding
• Basic knowledge of programming/scripting in any language (Mel, Python)
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine 4 or similar game engine
• Experience in the motion capture process
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We offer:
• Flexible working hours
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Best hardware
• A masseur and a corporate doctor
• Healthcare & sport benefits
• An inspiring, comfy, clean, and safe office

We offer:
• Flexible hours approach
• Competitive salary and compensation package
• 18 business days of payable annual free-time
• 10 days of paid sick leave
• Membership of the IT-BPO club card, loyalty program.
• Gym, Masseur, and Doctor
• Relax zones

Professional growth:
• Challenging tasks and projects
• Individual Development Plan
• Personal education budget
• Performance appraisal
• Business trips

Fun:
• Corporate events and outstanding parties
• Team buildings
• Anniversary presents