Job description
Join Lumen Animations, a premier studio crafting award winning animated series and feature content. We are seeking a Senior Animator to lead character animation, ensure high quality performances, and collaborate with directors, riggers, and lighting to deliver on brand visuals.
As a Senior Animator, you will champion creative quality, mentor junior artists, and help maintain production schedules across multiple projects.
Responsibility
- Lead character animation from key poses to final shot, ensuring performance and timing across sequences.
- Collaborate with directors, storyboard artists, and riggers to translate scripts into believable character performances.
- Create production ready animation assets and assist with rigging as needed to optimize the pipeline.
- Maintain consistency in acting, weight, timing, and style across shots and sequences.
- Mentor junior animators, provide constructive feedback, and participate in reviews.
- Iterate on scenes based on director notes and test screenings, delivering on schedule.
- Collaborate with lighting and compositing teams to achieve final look and polish in shots.
Qualification
- Bachelor or equivalent in animation, visual effects or related field; or proven industry experience.
- 5+ years of professional character animation experience in film, television, or games; strong showreel required.
- Proficiency with Maya or Blender; solid understanding of rigging concepts and skin weights; experience with Toon Boom Harmony is a plus.
- Strong acting sense with knowledge of anatomy, timing, and motion principles; ability to create expressive performances.
- Experience integrating motion capture data into animation pipelines and cleaning data for production.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; able to mentor and lead junior artists.
- Ability to manage multiple shots and adapt to tight production schedules in a fast paced environment.