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You will be responsible for delivering high quality animations, either from enhancing motion capture or key-framing, for our cinematic and scripted event scenes.\nWhat you'll do:\nWork closely with the Cinematic and Animation Directors, animators, scripters, tech team and other departments to create our Cinematics and scripted events;\nWork in coordination with animation lead to help mentor and build a collaboration within the team\nEnhance and polish character performances (body and facial) from video and motion capture;\nMust have an excellent understanding of the animation principles (posing, timing, balance and weight) to create realistic and believable key-frame animations;\nConstruct previs from story scripts and/or storyboards, and have the ability to create scene layouts, staging, camera and editing;\nCommunicate with the Cinematic and Animation Directors for reviews and feedback;\nWork closely with scripters and the animation TDs to ensure the quality of the integration of the animations;\nDetect inconsistencies or bugs and validate that the cinematic scene plays correctly.\n Strong experience creating cinematic animations for video games;\nExcellent grasp for storytelling, acting and cinematography;\nUnderstanding of game cinematic production pipelines and workflows;\nRelevant 2D and 3D software experience - MotionBuilder, Maya, 3DSMax, Photoshop, Premiere, Final Cut;\nGood collaboration with members of the animation team and other team members on the project;\nMust be open to direction, criticism and able to accept change;\nExtensive animation experience with hand-keyed disciplines, experience with motion capture a plus;\nAttention to detail and experience solving technical problems.\nWhat to send our way\nA portfolio showcasing your best game cinematic animation work.\nYour CV highlighting your experience and skills.\n This is a one-year fixed-term contract.\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy and is not intended to build a candidate pool for future opportunities. 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