Facial Animator Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Facial Animator to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Help improve animation pipelines;
- Work closely with the team to create balanced solutions to any related technical and aesthetic issues;
- Animate natural and expressive motion to create realistic, fluid facial animations;
- Create visually stunning 3D facial animations;
- Implement, troubleshoot and debug animation systems.
Requirements:
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work closely with Artists, Designers and Programmers;
- Exceptional skill in animating human and animal faces;
- Strong understanding of development issues involved in getting animations into a game;
- Positive, solution-oriented individual with a passion for game development;
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a self-directed manner and make timely, well-thought out decisions;
- Bachelor’s Degree in Animation or similar from a competitive program;
- Hand key facial animation experience required;
- Outstanding demo reel demonstrating good understanding of animation principles with a focus on high quality facial animation;
- Minimum 3 years of experience in animation for cutscene, cinematic or equivalent;
- Production experience on current generation console and/or PC;
- Advanced knowledge in one of: 3D Studio Max, MotionBuilder, or equivalent 3D program.