Senior Gameplay Animator

Work With Us on Project D████

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced and talented Senior Gameplay Animator to join the development effort on our exciting new game “Project D.”

The project is a third person horror game with experimental narrative, a return to the genre that our director, Sam Barlow, previously explored with Silent Hill: Shattered Memorie s. Candidates with experience of shipping a third person Unreal title on console are preferred. We're combining AAA experience with indie agility to deliver a big, ambitious game and are assembling a small team to make it happen.

This is a long term contract position on a remote team. Candidates in European timezones are preferred. Our studio is based in Brooklyn, NY and occasional travel to New York City may be required.

Applicants from traditionally marginalized identities within the game industry are highly encouraged to apply. Half Mermaid Productions does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status.

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Responsibilities

• Create animations for both grounded, real world human characters and inhuman characters alike
• Take animations from design spec through key pose to finished animation, creating responsive but authentic motion
• Collaborate with other departments to implement animations in engine

Skills

Required Skills:

• Have shipped a character-based game on console
• High level understanding of combat and grapple animations
• Fluency in Maya and Unreal Engine 5
• Strong communication skills, contributing to the productivity and success of working in a remote team environment
• An appreciation for narrative and psychological horror

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience working with MGear
• Proficiency in body and facial rigging
• Experience with motion capture pipelines and interest in cutting edge technologies to reduce cost and effort for performance capture

About Half Mermaid Productions

Half Mermaid is a video game production company based in Brooklyn, New York.

We were founded in 2017 by four time Bafta winning writer-director Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.

In 2019, our first title, Telling Lies, was published by Annapurna Interactive. This intimate investigative thriller received rave reviews and was heralded for the depth of its story and the performances of its cast.

In 2022, we released IMMORTALITY to critical acclaim, including receiving the first perfect 10/10 score in Edge Magazine for an independent game. It tells the story of Marissa Marcel, a vanished actress who starred in three movies that were never released.

In 2023, we began production on our most ambitious title to date, Project █████.