Viewmodel Gameplay Animator – Contract

Job Description:

• Create polished first-person weapon animations, including firing, relo, weapon handling, inspections, melee, equipment use, and other gameplay interactions
• Use traditional animation fundamentals to craft stylized to hyper-realistic game motions
• Maintain clear weapon readability, strong posing, convincing weight, and responsive timing from the player’s perspective
• Animate and refine first-person camera motion to support gameplay clarity, impact, and presentation
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, tech artists, riggers, modelers, and other animators to solve creative and technical problems
• Implement, test, and debug animation in the game engine or proprietary tools
• Respond to feedback and iterate efficiently to achieve AAA-level polish
• Help identify workflow or pipeline improvements that increase animation team efficiency and quality
• Communicate progress, risks, technical issues, and creative intent to partners and le
• Support development of animation standards, documentation, and reusable animation systems

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional animation experience
• 1+ years of professional game animation experience
• Strong animation fundamentals with emphasis on human movement, weight, timing, posing, and physicality
• Experience creating or implementing first-person or gameplay animation
• Advanced proficiency with Autodesk Maya
• Experience working with animation implementation tools and game engines
• Strong problem-solving skills across creative and technical challenges
• Ability to work effectively with multiple disciplines in a collaborative development environment
• Ability to receive feedback, iterate quickly, and maintain a high-quality bar
• Strong communication, organization, and self-direction
• Ability to quickly learn and work within an established production pipeline
• At least one shipped game title is preferred
• Experience working on a first-person shooter is a bonus
• Experience with motion capture cleanup, retargeting, or editing is a bonus
• Experience with proprietary game engines or animation pipelines is a bonus
• Experience mentoring junior or associate animators is a bonus
• Interest in participating in previs or mocap shoots, if required by the project is a bonus
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex animation tasks from initial direction through implementation and polish
• Ability to provide constructive feedback and technical guidance to less experienced animators
• Ability to identify risks early and help resolve production issues independently

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
• 401(k) with Company match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation
• Paid sick time
• Floating holidays
• Compassion and bereavement leaves
• Parental leave
• Mental health & wellbeing programs
• Fitness programs
• Free and discounted games
• Supplemental life & disability insurance
• Legal service
• ID protection
• Rental insurance
• Relocation assistance may be available if the Company requires geographic relocation
• Incentive compensation may be available; not guaranteed