Full-Time Senior Gameplay Animator
CD PROJEKT RED is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Gameplay Animator. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting Warsaw, Poland based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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We’re seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Gameplay Animator to join our team.
In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with Gameplay Designers, Programmers, and Technical Animators to create lifelike and immersive animations for human enemies (NPCs).
You’ll be responsible for planning and crafting animation sets that bring our NPCs to life, enhancing gameplay and aligning with the game’s overall vision.
If you’re passionate about games and excited to contribute to a dynamic, creative environment alongside industry veterans, we’d love to hear from you!
Daily responsibilities
- Delivering in-game animations using Autodesk Maya, MotionBuilder and Unreal Engine as the main art creation and implementation tools.
- Planning, preparing, and directing motion capture sessions.
- Establishing and maintaining animation asset creation workflows, folders, naming conventions and other engine-related organizational structures.
- Planning and co-developing multiple NPC-related animation systems, including the structures of animation graphs, procedural animation setups, and engine-specific auxiliary data such as notification and synchronization events, and additional data settings files.
- Strong experience with motion capture data and key-frame animation.
- Solid understanding of animation principles and body mechanics.
- Experience shipping games with at least one title released.
- Good grasp and understanding of gameplay design.
- Strong knowledge of the latest Unreal Engine animation and gameplay-related systems.
- Very good communication and problem-solving skills.
- Basic knowledge of Python and the ability to read scripts or C++ code will be a plus.
- Fluent English.
Working mode
Hybrid/in-office from Warsaw/Cracow or Wroclaw or fully remote.