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WLVFX |
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Animator - Lead / Senior Level |
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Dublin |
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29 Herbert St. Dublin 2, Ireland |
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Date Posted: |
March 5th |
Email: |
recruit @ wlvfx.com
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ANIMATOR - LEAD / SENIOR LEVEL
Windmill Lane VFX is looking for a skilled CG animator (senior/lead/director) level with a broad background animating different types of characters and creatures to work with their VFX team on a forthcoming film project.
You’ll be a personable, pro-active, self-starter who can motivate and lead the team around you as well as work with the project director to realise her/his vision and ensure the standard and quality of the animation is consistently high.
Prior Lead experience is a must, as is a thorough knowledge of Maya and the ability to troubleshoot technical problems. A good understanding of the animation pipeline including pre-production, production and post-production is also necessary.
Responsibilities
- Working closely with the Director and VFX Supervisors to meet character requirements, creative aims and vision of the project
- Working closely with Rigging and Pipeline to improve character setup, visual quality, rigs and tool functionality
- Maintain effective communication with Production and Supervisor
- Working efficiently as part of a team, or independently
- You must be able to take and share direction and feedback well, demonstrate initiative, versatility and resourcefulness and have a positive attitude.
- Quality controlling animation output on assigned project
- Camera layout/blocking/previs when required
- Contributing to character design, look dev and motion testing as required
Requirements
- Previous experience (min 5+years) in a similar role in animation/VFX
- A thorough knowledge of Maya
- An understanding of physical motion, weight, balance, texture and form
- An understanding of rigs and typical rigging set-ups, animation pipelines and transferring data between tools
- The proven ability to work under pressure
- Being open to direction and able to embrace change
- Attention to detail
- Reliable, with good time keeping and the ability to meet deadlines
- A demonstrable commitment to creative collaboration within a team and with other departments
- Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work interactively with production and other departments to solve production challenges
- Modelling and Rigging skills a plus
- Knowledge of human and animal anatomy as well as life drawing skills
- Accomplished examples of keyframe animation, both character acting and full body
- Ability to feedback to rigging and pipeline and direct any technical changes
Location
We are part of a busy content creation, VFX, audio, and post-production studio working on a range of film, TV, and advertising projects in Dublin, Ireland. We are currently working remotely and ideally would prefer if you are, or could be Dublin-based in the future. We love and value a studio environment, although hybrid and remote working solutions will always be considered.
Please send a CV, cover letter, and links to the email above with “Senior Animator” in the subject.
Apply Now / Email: recruit @ wlvfx.com
Deadline: June 7th
www.wlvfx.com
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