Senior Animator

Founded by long-time industry veteran @BrianFargo in 2002, inXile Entertainment develops interactive entertainment software for all popular game systems, personal computers and wireless devices. The most current project under development is Wasteland 2 which was recently financed by its fans via @Kickstarter.

inXile is looking for a passionate, experienced Senior Animator to collaborate with our other animators, designers and leads, to help maintain or develop workflows, and to create inspiring and convincing animation for our games.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in a game production environment, on one or more shipped game titles.
• A thorough understanding of animation pipelines and processes from concept to implementation.
• Technical / rigging / scripting experience and knowledge.
• Enjoys collaborating with design and art teams to deliver great gameplay and storytelling experiences.
• Extensive experience animating realistic humans as well as bipedal and non-bipedal critters.
• A good sense of weight and timing in your animation performances.
• Excels at creating interactive animations that blend and combine to end in a fluid result.
• Must be able to work with minimal direction, but be flexible with making edits and revisions based on gameplay requirements and animation reviews.
• Maintains or exceeds a consistent level of productivity while meeting deadlines and producing high quality work.
• Expected to mentor entry level Animators and must be able to assist them with their animations.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work within boundaries to creatively solve animation issues.
• Strong understanding of classic animation principles and fundamental.
• Must have a demo reel with examples of work.

Pluses:

• Experience with Xbox Kinect for the purposes of blocking in animation or other motion capture experience.
• Unity experience.
• Experience working on cutscenes/cinematics.
• Shipped one or more AAA titles.
• Avid gamer.