Game Animator (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Game Animator (Gamedev): Creating high-quality in-game animations that wow players, collaborating with animators, developers, designers, and producers. Focus on hand-keyed timeline animation, sprite assets, and in-game engine implementation.

Location: Office conveniently located in downtown Helsinki

Company

hirify.global brings people together through the power of play as a global leader in interactive entertainment and a label of Take-Two Interactive.

What you will do

• Collaborate with other animators, software developers, designers and producers to ensure consistent product vision.
• Identify production and pipeline issues and communicate them appropriately.
• Participate in reviews; respond to critical feedback in a professional manner and contribute feedback to your peers.
• Create high-quality in-game animations.
• Ensure that each animation has the right energy and personality, as intended by the project vision.

Requirements

• Experience working as a 2D animator in games (or strong comparable animation skillset).
• Good knowledge in hand-keyed timeline animation and strong understanding of core principles of animation such as ‘timing’ and ‘weight’.
• Experience in preparing and working with game-ready sprite assets and their in-game engine implementation.
• An excellent portfolio which demonstrates your ability to create high-quality game animations and validates that you have a good knowledge of animation creation in different styles.
• Strong proficiency with Unity and Photoshop.
• Ability to work in Git version control workflow and follow animation pipelines.
• Self-Organised, efficient and active and initiative team member.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in spritesheet and sprite art creation and frame-by-frame animation.
• Experience in After Effects, Spine (or comparable skeletal animation software), particle systems and 3D animation.
• Experience or interest in working with audio and implementing sound effects in-game.
• Experience in working with external teams.
• Genuine passion for games and animation and good knowledge of art and culture.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Exciting, fun and highly successful projects to work on.
• Extremely talented and helpful colleagues.
• Lots of power and responsibility.