# Senior Cinematic Animator

**Company**: Ubisoft
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Game Development
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Cinematic Animator at Ubisoft, you are a key element in delivering an amazing story. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality animations, either from enhancing motion capture or key-framing, for cinematic and scripted event scenes.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with Cinematic and Animation Directors, animators, scripters, tech team, and other departments to create cinematics and scripted events.

- Mentor and build collaboration within the team with the animation lead.

- Enhance and polish character performances (body and facial) from video and motion capture.

- Create realistic and believable key-frame animations using excellent understanding of animation principles (posing, timing, balance, and weight).

- Construct previs from story scripts and/or storyboards, and create scene layouts, staging, camera, and editing.

- Communicate with Cinematic and Animation Directors for reviews and feedback.

- Ensure quality integration of animations with scripters and animation TDs.

- Detect inconsistencies or bugs and validate cinematic scene playback.

Qualifications:

- Strong experience creating cinematic animations for video games.

- Excellent grasp of storytelling, acting, and cinematography.

- Understanding of game cinematic production pipelines and workflows.

- Experience with relevant 2D and 3D software: MotionBuilder, Maya, 3DSMax, Photoshop, Premiere, Final Cut.

- Good collaboration and communication skills.

- Open to direction, criticism, and change.

- Extensive animation experience with hand-keyed disciplines; motion capture experience a plus.

- Attention to detail and problem-solving skills.

To apply, please send a portfolio showcasing your best game cinematic animation work and your CV highlighting experience and skills.

## Skills

### Required
- MotionBuilder
- Maya
- 3DSMax
- Photoshop
- Premiere
- Final Cut
- cinematic animation
- key-framing
- motion capture

### Nice to have
- hand-keyed animation
- storytelling
- acting
- cinematography

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