Animation Lead
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Keywords StudiosGame development
Canada, working across time zonesFull-TimeLead
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Unreal engineMentoring
Requirements
- Have strong professional experience in game animation, including shipped AAA or high-quality game titles.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of body mechanics, weight, timing, acting, and stylized and realistic animation.
- Be proficient with Maya, keyframe and mocap workflows, and Unreal Engine and/or Unity.
- Have experience reviewing work, mentoring animators, and providing effective creative direction.
- Collaborate across time zones and with distributed teams.
- Identify creative or workflow problems and help drive practical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Review animation work and provide actionable feedback on body mechanics, timing, weight, acting, gameplay feel, and quality.
- Guide and mentor animators in India to strengthen artistic judgment, technical execution, and independence.
- Translate client direction, style guides, and feedback into clear guidance, references, and priorities.
- Monitor quality, first-time approval, rework, and schedule risks, and address or escalate issues early.
- Partner with Production, Tech Art, and other disciplines to support animation asset integration in project pipelines.
- Improve review practices, workflows, documentation, pose libraries, style guides, and other team tools.
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