Animation Supervisor
Do you have experience leading animation teams and enjoy engaging with the best clients across the Games and Episodic industries, if so click apply and let's chat
REALTIME is on the lookout for a new Animation Supervisor to join our expanding animation team. With lots of exciting projects coming up, we are searching for the right talent to add a new member of our team who can work alongside our Animation Director to deliver across a broad range of projects within both Games and Episodic.
We are looking for a very talented animator who has a wealth of experience in keyframe animation as well as being comfortable with working with motion capture data and with a good technical knowledge in order to be both hands on and guide/mentor other animators.
This role would be suited to an experienced animation lead/supervisor with a strong sense of organisation and team management. Someone who can interpret the client feedback and convey them in an efficient way to the animators of the team.
Working at REALTIME, you will be expected to build relationships with the senior team (Animation Director, Art Director, Character TD, Lead lighting, Pipeline TD, editorial) and you will report directly to the Animation Director.
This position is open for working either in our studios (Manchester, Westby) or for remote work from home.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- You will need to take on board and deliver the direction from the client, the Animation Director or the project Director.
- You might be working across various types of projects (TV series, commercials, video games’ cinematics and trailers ...) animating all kinds of characters, creatures, animals or moving objects.
- You will attend to the client calls for briefing and for feedback. You are expected to communicate with the client to ensure that his vision is conveyed properly in the work that the animators will present.
- You will offer guidance to more junior artists, give face-to-face technical help to all animation staff, communicate well, have a positive attitude.
- You will create and provide the necessary documentation to ensure that the workflow of the project is clear and efficient for the artists.
- You will think analytically to identify problems and come up with creative and efficient solutions, find ways to overcome obstacles and deliver the project.
- You will have the responsibility to overview the animation of the project, and to assure that the quality benchmark anticipated is being hit by the artists of your team.
- You will be expected to assist the animators to improve their artistic and technical knowledge to bring the overall result to a high and equal calibre.
- You will need to deliver shots within set timescales ensuring that the Project Directors and Production team are kept up to date by providing relevant documentation.
- You will need to review the work of the animators regularly and provide them with the most comprehensive notes through meetings, online notes, video recording or any other form that can be useful to share the adjustment needed.
- You will work on projects that will involve organic and mechanical animations.
- You will need to assist and guide our animation and pipeline quality standards.
- You might be involved in some mocap shooting and might be asked to perform in the mocap suit.
- Depending on your artistic skill, you might be invited to contribute to some designs that could help the course of the animation process: blend shapes, anatomical references, poses … these would be used for the production process and might be used later for communicating on the public relation and on making of
- You might be asked to participate to managerial responsibilities such as contributing to appraisals and supporting with interviews/hiring.
- You might be requested to attend, and assist for the direction, to some mocap shooting sessions at the chosen studio by REALTIME.
SKILLS SUMMARY:
- Be a great communicant with inspiring attitude.
- Be proactive and a problem solver.
- Have a solid understanding of visual storytelling.
- Needs to have expert knowledge of the animation principles and be able to convey them.
- Be particularly good at posing, weight, clear and appealing silhouette, timing, flows and can convey emotion through performance.
- Proficient in both key-frame and motion capture workflows
- Need to be expert in realistic animation with expert understanding of the body mechanic principles.
- Be able to provide references including by shooting some video of your performance.
- Understands different production workflows.
- Have a great sense of organisation to keep track of the progress on the show and be reactive to reinforce the weakness in the workflow.
- Knowledge of all parts of animation pipelines: have a strong understanding of all jobs within a pipeline, what these involve, the needs and challenges of the roles.
- Being able to be the bridge between the client/director/animation director and the animators
- Have good knowledge of the usage of camera and editing.
- Ability to work under tight deadlines.
- Experience with Perforce and Metahuman workflow is a plus.
- Driven to provide the highest quality of work.
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
. Expert knowledge of Maya.
. Knowledge of UE, Animbot and Google and Microsoft document tools is a plus.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE
- 10 + years animation experience with at least the delivery of one AAA Games IP or a High-end film or TV project.
- Have experience of leading animation teams.
- Experience with performance capture pipelines would be preferred.
- Understand working with game engines would be beneficial.
- Experience of rigging or having generalist 3d skills or any scripting experience would be a plus.
ONLY 3D animators with demo reel provided ( vimeo or Youtube link only) would be considered
- Department
- Animation
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Willows Farm Studio, Ballam Road, Westby, Preston, PR4 3PN
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About REALTIME
We tell cutting-edge visual stories through high quality CGI, animation and VFX. Our combination of artistry, technical excellence and dedication helps us create immersive experiences that bring the CGI world to life.
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Animation Supervisor
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