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ANIMATION CONTRACTOR REQUIRED
EA Bright Light Studio located in Guildford, Surrey has an opening for experienced contract Animators to work alongside our internal development team on our Harry Potter franchise. The contracts are likely to start in October 2009 for at least five months.

EA is looking for an Animator with demonstrable experience in the gaming industry, preferably with experience working on PS3 and XBOX 360 platforms. Ideally contractors will have shipped a number of titles previously on these platforms.

•Strong Maya experience
•Experience using Motion builder
•Experience of Animating in game characters both key framed and motion captured
•Very strong understanding of principles of animation (weight; timing, arcs, follow through and overshoot etc.)
•Ability to produce quality artwork
•Self-motivated with good communication skills essential
•Experience in distributed development desirable

Please send your CV, including the link to your online portfolio to contractingatbrightlight@ea.com detailing your daily rate expectations.

Please note that we can only consider applications from individuals who can work onsite in Guildford and are already eligible to legally work in the UK.

Via Motionographer

Inition are a 3D/ VR production company based in Shoreditch, London. Currently they are looking for a freelance mid level 3ds max designer to work in their London office. Some programming experience would be desirable however not essential.

Must have good knowledge and capabilities in, 3ds max: modelling, texturing & animation (understands rigging). The type of work we require would be refining existing car models and landscapes set within an existing car racing game. In some cases we will require new elements to be created.

The project may (TBC) last for a period of 6-8 weeks, so ideally looking for someone who is available in the next few weeks up until the middle to end of October.

Please email us a link to your reel; please also include your day rate and availability.

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3D Character Animators
Technicolor Interactive Art & Animation
Burbank, California – United States

Project: Technicolor Interactive – Animation (3D), Trailer

Bonus Eligibility: No
Relocation: No
Start Date: Immediately
Required Spoken Language(s): English
Required Work Auth.: United States

Job Description and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating high quality animation.
• Responsible for meeting or exceeding scheduled deliverables.
• Responsible for adjusting performances per Client/Lead Animator requests.

Requirements:

• Experience with Maya, XSI or Motionbuilder.
• Strong Facial Animation Skills
• Strong Performance Animation skills
• Excellent ability to create realistic keyframe animation.
• Experience creating gameplay animation sets.
• Experience keyframing both humans and creatures.
• Experience with Motion Capture Animation.
• Strong Motion Editing skills.

Desired Skills and Pluses:

• 3-5 years animation experience in games/film.
• Knowledge of Mel Scripting and Character Rigging.
• Keyframe Human and Facial animation experience is highly desired.
• Camera animation/Cinematography skills are highly desired.
• Strong communication skills.
• Diverse skill set is highly desired.
• Must have the ability to work under direction of Lead Animator.

Technicolor Interactive Art & Animation
250 E. Olive Ave.
Burbank, California 91502
818-480-5100
818-480-5200 FAX
http://www.technicolorinteractive.com/

Climax are one of the leading creative lights of independent games development with a great history, but our future is even more exciting with titles such Overlord: Dark Legend for Codemasters, our stunning and refreshing take on the action and adventure genre.

Climax truly is an exciting, creative and fun place to work and we currently have an exceptional opportunity for a talented Freelance/ Contract SFX Artist.

Our ideal candidate will:

• Join an exciting dedicated SFX team to design, conceptualize and animate real time effects for characters and environments on current and next generation platforms.
• Have 1/ 2 years experience in the games industry and have the ability to demonstrate outstanding visual effects.
• Be able to accurately render and animate realistic and fantasy elements in line with the overall game concept and physical principles
• Be responsible for all aspects of 3D and 2D effects work including, designing and conceptualising the effects, animating geometry and camera work
• Accurately render and animate realistic and fantasy elements in line with the overall game concept and physical principles.
• Be able to demonstrate a high level of creativity and understanding of modelling, texturing, lighting and particles.
• Have extensive Maya and Photoshop skills.
• Real time FX experience is essential.
• Experience in After Effects beneficial

Please send a current CV/ resume to Stuart Godfrey on sgodfrey@climaxgroup.com

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Climax are one of the leading creative lights of independent games development with a great history, but our future is even more exciting with titles such Overlord: Dark Legend for Codemasters, our stunning and refreshing take on the action and adventure genre.

Climax truly is an exciting, creative and fun place to work and we currently have an exceptional opportunity for an experienced and talented experienced Animator.

Our ideal candidate will be:

• An exceptionally good character animator.
• A motivated individual with attention to details and respects deadlines & budgets. Who is task driven with excellent time management skills and with the ability to prioritise their work as well as the team members beneath them.
• Able to supply well-presented examples or a pertinent show reel that demonstrate your knowledge and execution of timing, weight, expression, posing, etc.
• Able to showcase a wealth of different animation skills from realistic through to monster and quadrupeds.
• Experienced enough to have worked on one or more published titles at an experienced/ senior level of responsibility as a character animator.
• Professionally conversant in Maya.
• Professional and effective at communicating directives.
• Experienced at troubleshooting technical problems and creating solutions with regards to 3D animation in a game engine, from constraints to exporting, whatever the problem may be.

Please send a current CV/ resume to Stuart Godfrey on sgodfrey@climaxgroup.com