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3D Animator

Studio Profile:

Established in 2006, Ubisoft Sofia has quickly become one of the group’s most versatile studios. In its first 6 years, the studio has already developed a rich portfolio, ranging from casual games to flight simulations, and covering a wide range of platforms and technologies including Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars 3DS, Prince of Persia Trilogy HD PS3, Imagine: Fashion Designer 3DS, Prince of Persia Classics PSN, Chessmaster: The Art of Learning DS & PSP, and most recently Assassin’s Creed III Liberation for the PlayStation VITA.

Currently the studio is working on Assassin’s Creed Black Flag.

Job responsibilities:

• Understands the main needs of the consumer and makes sure that the elements developed by his/her team will contribute to the satisfaction and the entertainment of the consumer.
• Delivers work in accordance with the artistic direction of the project.
• Animate characters, cameras or objects used for real time or pre-calculated sequences.
• Deliver animatic and quick draft animation to proof idea.
• Produce final, high quality animation from scratch, pre-designed draft or motion capture footage.
• Participate in the creation and realization of cinematic sequences as well as in-game animations.

Team Responsibilities

• Follows the quality standards, the aspects of the game wanted as well as the respect of the deadlines.
• Motivates and helps his/her team members.
• Reports to the Lead Animator.

Professional Qualifications and Experience:

• Excellent knowledge of a 3d package - 3DSMAX, Character Studio and MotionBuilder.
• Have an excellent understanding of animation principles – timing, weight and staging.
• Good knowledge and experience in keyframing convincing, realistic, well timed animations.
• Rigging skills, understands all aspects of character rigging and skinning.
• Basic understanding of motion capture technique, mo-cap data processing knowledge will be a plus.
• Scripting (maxscript, python) will be a plus.
• Good understanding of acting will be a plus.
• Minimum 2 years of experience.
• Very good artistic skills.
• Very good English skills.

Personal Qualities:

• Enthusiasm and desire to work in the game development industry
• Critical analysis and problem solving.
• Self motivated to improve own qualifications.
• Ability to learn game engine tools and pipeline.
• Willing to long-term commitment to the company.

We offer:

• Professional working environment and access to new technologies.
• Career opportunities, including the possibility of professional exchanges with other Ubisoft studios around the world.
• Incentive programs meant to ensure our new employees an easy integration in the teams.
• Motivating salary and benefits.

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria (work on-site)

Contact: Please send us your resume in English and demo-reel at: https://www.ubisoftgroup.com/en-US/careers/search_for_jobs.aspx?LinkId=18771

Note: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for a test and interview!