Lead Animator

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom Push Gaming Full time

**Lead Animator**

**About Push Gaming**:
Push Gaming is a leading and innovative iGaming development studio specialising in creating engaging and entertaining mobile and online casino games. We deliver high-quality experiences to players worldwide, and with a commitment to excellence, creativity, and innovation, we have become a trusted partner for some of the biggest names in the online gaming industry.

**Job Overview**:
We're looking for a fantastic lead animator to join our team and work on our next awesome slot games

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Create high-quality storyboards and animations in Spine in all areas of the game from characters to backgrounds to game symbols and VFX.
- Work closely with Art Leads, Game Designers and Developers to detail the goals and implement animations into the game.
- Lead the animators team on game throughout the entire game development cycle.
- Assist developers throughout the game development process.
- Take ownership of your own and your team’s development to grow and learn.
- Produce concepts and mockups to help the decision making process.
- Optimize assets so that our games run smoothly.
- Designing recourse lean animations, still of high quality and performance for mobile devices.
- Lead the recruitment of other animators in the team/studio.

**What you'll bring to the role**:

- More than 3 years of experience in the slot industry.
- Understanding of slot games mechanics.
- Good communication skills and experience working in a team environment.
- Experience to guide other animators in the team.
- Be a confident decision maker and challenge yourself.
- Support game development by solving problems and assisting the product as it evolves
- A desire to push animation in video-games to new levels of believability.
- Excellent understanding of skeletal animation in Spine 2D.
- Knowledge of other Adobe packages like Photoshop, After Effects.
- Understanding how to compile animations for a game pipeline.
- A varied showreel that covers character animation, visual effects and storytelling
- Strong understanding of animation principles, such as key poses, squash and stretch, anticipation, follow-through, etc.
- Ability to work within an art team, manage multiple tasks and work towards deadlines.
- Ability to develop various appealing animations and adapt to existing styles and guidelines set by Art Leads and Art Director.
- A communicator with the ability to verbalise conceptual thoughts and with an openness to constructive criticism.

**Why join us?**

It’s a really exciting time to join Push Gaming. We’re expanding our teams to deliver some stellar work.

We are passionate about creating premium quality games and will never compromise on this. The approach we take in building and strengthening our team is no different. We set out to attract and retain high performers and are committed to seeking like-minded individuals who share our vision for excellence and quality.

In turn, we offer all the tools and support to allow individuals to grow and thrive, while achieving both personal and company goals in an environment that’s built around trust, collaboration, transparency and accountability.

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