# Animation Lead - Lakshya Digital

**Company**: Lakshya Digital
**Location**: Canada
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Animation Lead is responsible for guiding the quality, execution, and day-to-day creative performance of assigned animation teams and projects.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide clear, actionable feedback on animation work, focusing on body mechanics, timing, weight, acting, gameplay feel, and overall quality.

- Mentor and guide animators in India to strengthen artistic judgment, technical execution, and independence.

- Translate client direction, style guides, and feedback into clear guidance for the team.

- Monitor quality, first-time approval, rework, and schedule risk, identifying issues early and working with Production and creative leadership to resolve or escalate them.

- Collaborate with Tech Art, Production, and other disciplines to ensure animation assets integrate effectively in Unreal Engine, Unity, or other project pipelines.

- Help improve review practices, workflows, documentation, pose libraries, style guides, and other tools that enable teams to work more effectively.

Requirements:

- Strong professional experience in game animation, including shipped AAA or high-quality game titles.

- Deep understanding of body mechanics, weight, timing, acting, and both stylized and realistic animation.

- Proficiency with Maya, keyframe and mocap workflows, and Unreal Engine and/or Unity.

- Demonstrated experience reviewing work, mentoring animators, and providing effective creative direction.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including working across time zones and distributed teams.

- Ability to identify creative or workflow problems and help drive practical solutions.

## Skills

### Required
- game animation
- Maya
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
- animation production
- team management

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