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Senior or Principal Level Designer at CD Projekt Red
The Molasses Flood is looking for a Senior or Principal Level Designer to help us create gameplay-rich and environmentally story-dense spaces for our next title. You will drive the creation of spaces set in the Slavic open world of The Witcher that support telling the story of this world while supporting a rich palette of gameplay systems.
As a senior or principal designer, you will be responsible for layout, greybox, scripting, markup, and encounter design. You will also work collaboratively with the gameplay design, engineering, art, and narrative teams to make sure that the spaces you create are beautiful, performant, fun, and tell the story of the game. You will work with tech designers and tools engineers to ensure you have all the tools they need to work happily and efficiently.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience as a level designer on a AAA or action title
- Experience with scripting systems, either visual (such as Blueprint) or text-based (such as Python, Lua, or C#)
- The ability to communicate fluently with engineering, art, narrative and production
- Candidates must have a US work permit or citizenship
- Curiosity, kindness, and a positive and professional can-do attitude
Senior Level Designer at CD Projekt Red
As a Senior Level Designer, you will create gameplay-rich and environmentally story-dense spaces. Your responsibilities will include layout, greybox, scripting, markup, and encounter design. You will also work collaboratively with the gameplay design, engineering, art, and narrative teams to make sure that the spaces you create are beautiful, performant, fun, and tell the story of the game. You will work with tech designers and tools engineers to ensure you have all the tools they need to work happily and efficiently.
The ideal candidate has a background in production-level design, a solid understanding of level design principles, a strong technical background, experience building for multiplayer, familiarity with scripting systems, and a high level of comfort driving the level design process from concept through ship.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience as a level designer on a AAA or action title
- Experience with scripting systems, either visual (such as Blueprint) or text-based (such as Python, Lua, or C#)
- The ability to communicate fluently with engineering, art, narrative, and production
- Curiosity, kindness, and a positive and professional can-do attitude
- Can think and work creatively, taking initiative to solve problems.
- Drive towards professional growth.
- Passion for creating games.
Technical UI Designer at Electronic Arts
We are looking for Junior to Mid-level Technical UI Designers to come join us in bringing the user interface of the next Battlefield to life. You will work in our proprietary Frostbite engine using visual scripting to develop the HUD and further UI flows and elements. Often you will be the puzzle piece tying features together while making sure our performance targets are met. You will report to the Lead UI Scripter.
Qualifications:
- You have a minimum of 2 years experience working in professional game development and working in game engines
- Implemented screens, widgets, logic and data flows, worked with other disciplines to implement UI
- You have experience in UI implementation with other game engines or frameworks like Unreal, Unity, WPF, Qt, or Blockly
- You have experience in solving technically challenging problems
- You have experience with rapid prototyping to test the feasibility of concepts, taking an idea from start to finish on your own
- An understanding of (UI/UX) design principles, typography, layout, motion, and visual fidelity
Senior Gameplay Animator at Bethesda Game Studios
Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls, and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.
With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!
Qualifications:
- You have 5+ years of professional or related experience as a Gameplay Animator
- You have strong hand-keyed/keyframe animation skills
- You demonstrate outstanding Animation skills, displaying a strong understanding of the principles and a desire to improve
- You maintain a strong attention to detail
- You are a self-motivated team player with a strong work ethic and a cooperative attitude
- You possess an ability to adapt to change and accept constructive feedback
- You exhibit excellent problem-solving and prototyping skills
- You show excellent organization and time management skills
- You communicate effectively with excellent oral and written skills
- You have proficient skills in Maya
- You bring experience animating on first-person-focused games
- You have a passion for gaming and making GREAT games
- You are dedicated to pushing animation quality to the next level
Face Animator at Rockstar Games
At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences.
A career at Rockstar Games is about being part of a team working on some of the most creatively rewarding and ambitious projects to be found in any entertainment medium. You would be welcomed to a dedicated and inclusive environment where you can learn, and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.
Rockstar Games is on the lookout for a talented Animator who possesses a passion for facial animation. This is a full-time permanent position based out of Rockstar’s unique game development studio in the heart of Edinburgh.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Animation or similar from a competitive program.
- Production experience on current generation console and/or PC.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in animation for cutscene, cinematic or equivalent.
- Hand-key facial animation experience required.
- Outstanding demo reel demonstrating good understanding of animation principles with a focus on high-quality facial animation.
- Advanced knowledge in one of: 3D Studio Max, MotionBuilder, or equivalent 3D program.
- Exceptional skill in animating human and animal faces.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work closely with Artists, Designers and Programmers.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a self-directed manner and make timely, well-thought out decisions.
- Strong understanding of development issues involved in getting animations into a game.
- Positive, solution-oriented individual with a passion for game development.
Technical Animator at Epic Games
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
Epic Games is searching for Technical Animators, ranging from entry-level to experienced seniors, with a passion for expressive character movement to join our team working on Fortnite. In this talented team of veteran and emerging artists you’ll collaborate across teams, and contribute directly to Fortnite and other Epic projects. Joining this team means you’re motivated to seek solutions to problems and work with other artists to make positive changes to models, movements, and tools. The heart of this role is rigging and skinning Epic’s never-ending line of awesome creations, each with their own set of challenges.
What we're looking for:
- Extensive experience rigging characters in Maya
- A portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters, bipeds, and beasts, both body and faces
- Attention to aesthetic detail, especially with regards to character deformation and physics movement
- Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline
- Positive individual with strong written communication and teamwork skills
- Exceptional problem-solver
- Python programming experience ideal
- You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
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