Associate Gameplay Animator

About the role

VOID Interactive, the studio behind the best-selling FPS game Ready or Not, is looking for an Associate Gameplay Animator. This is a fully remote, early-career opportunity for someone with strong fundamentals and a keen eye for detail, working alongside designers, riggers, programmers and fellow animators to create responsive character animations for locomotion, traversal, combat and other gameplay systems. Animations are produced with hand-keyed animation and motion capture data, and you will learn by implementing them directly in-engine.

Key responsibilities

• Create high-quality character animations for locomotion, traversal, combat and other gameplay systems
• Work with hand-keyed animation and motion capture data
• Integrate and test animations directly in-engine
• Work with animation state machines, blend trees and animation layers
• Collaborate with designers, riggers, programmers and animators to balance visual quality with responsive gameplay
• Support motion capture shoots and assist with motion capture data cleanup
• Test animations in context and respond to feedback from the wider development team
• Assist with troubleshooting animation and implementation issues under the guidance of senior team members
• Learn and work with proprietary tools and established animation pipelines, and contribute to improving animation workflows

Required profile

• 1+ years of professional production experience, or equivalent junior, internship or game development experience
• A portfolio or demo reel demonstrating character animation skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and a detail-oriented approach
• Willingness to receive feedback and develop technical skills
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, remote-first team

Required skills

• Strong working knowledge of Autodesk Maya, including animation layers and the Graph Editor
• Understanding of realistic body mechanics, weight, timing and character performance
• Understanding of how animation supports responsive gameplay
• Bonus: Unreal Engine or Unity, MotionBuilder, motion capture data cleanup, and gameplay animation systems

Irish residents are offered a full-time employee position; applicants based outside Ireland are offered the role on a contractor basis.