# Senior Gameplay Animator - Lakshya Digital

**Company**: Lakshya Digital
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for an experienced Senior Gameplay Animator to join our team on an exciting short-term contract, helping bring a high-profile, well-loved AAA IP to life.

Responsibilities:

- Create high-quality, polished gameplay animations for a combat-focused experience.

- Produce believable, weighty melee combat animations that feel responsive and satisfying.

- Animate combat encounters involving player attacks, enemy reactions, finishers, and traversal where required.

- Create animations supporting Quick Time Events (QTEs) and seamlessly blend gameplay into cinematic moments.

- Collaborate closely with designers, technical animators, and engineers to iterate on gameplay feel and responsiveness.

- Work within an established animation pipeline while maintaining a high level of polish and attention to detail.

- Help define and maintain the quality bar expected of a premium AAA action title.

Requirements:

- Extensive professional experience as a Gameplay Animator on AAA console or PC titles.

- Demonstrated experience working on third-person action or combat-heavy games.

- Strong understanding of melee combat systems, timing, anticipation, impact, and character weight.

- Experience creating cinematic gameplay moments and scripted in-game events.

- Excellent keyframe animation skills with a strong eye for performance and physicality.

- Comfortable working from motion capture as well as creating bespoke keyframe animation where required.

- Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently within a collaborative team.

Bonus Skills:

- Experience working on titles similar in style to: God of War, Ghost of Yōtei, Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us, Uncharted.

- Technical experience with any of the following is highly desirable: Autodesk Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Unreal Engine (UE4/UE5), Animation Blueprints, State Machines, and gameplay integration workflows.

## Skills

### Required
- Gameplay Animation
- AAA Game Development
- Combat Animation
- Keyframe Animation
- Motion Capture
- Collaboration

### Nice to have
- Autodesk Maya
- Autodesk MotionBuilder
- Unreal Engine
- Animation Blueprints
- State Machines

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