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Lead animation team for AAA games, set standards, mentor animators, and ship high-quality titles. Must have extensive experience, leadership, and technical skills.
With multiple awards to our name, Larian Studios has proven that we’re dedicated to delivering high-quality role-playing games. As we move on to new projects, the studio that brought you Baldur’s Gate 3 & Divinity: Original Sin 2 is looking for an Animation Director to join the team and help us in crafting the high caliber games our fans have come to expect.

Responsibilities

    • Craft a clear, understandable vision and plan for our game animation style and goals; and empower your leads, seniors, and adjacent teams to rally around that vision.
    • Collaborate and partner with other directors to set the standards, drive fidelity and quality for all aspects of our games’ animation content
    • Lead a team of highly skilled animators to deliver hi-fidelity animation; defining and setting the animation standard along each stage.
    • Mentor, develop, and build the skills of your team while ensuring team cohesion and an atmosphere of creativity
    • Coordinate with technical animation and coding teams to improve and develop the animation pipeline, tool sets, and functionality
    • Partner with production and leadership to balance creative goals with production realities while delivering on player experience
    • Provide regular actionable creative and directional feedback to your team to maintain and push quality

Requirements

    • Extensive experience in game animation leadership at the director, lead, or principal level; having shipped at least one AAA title
    • Deep understanding and passion for animation and the ability to translate it into constructive and insightful feedback
    • In-depth understanding of gameplay and cinematic animation
    • Strong knowledge of Animation software, pipelines, and game development processes
    • Experience leading teams, people management, and development
    • Excellent communication and collaborative problem-solving skills
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About The Company

In 1996, in a small office in Ghent, Belgium, Larian Studios was born. Since then, our passion to create a world class video games has driven the Divinity series - six games that straddle multiple genres and defy expectations. Our first crowdfunded success, Divinity: Original Sin, won over 150 awards and nominations, and the recently-released sequel Divinity: Original Sin 2 launched with a 93 Metacritic rating, as well as over 160 awards (Including the Bafta for Best Multiplayer Game) and counting! Thanks to the success of these two games, our family has grown to over 400 people around the world, working in our Ghent, Quebec, Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Guildford and Barcelona studios. Our latest title Baldur's Gate 3 released in 2023 to critical acclaim and is now listed among Metacritic's Must-Play games.

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Flanders, Belgium (On-Site)

Flanders, Belgium (On-Site)

Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)

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Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)

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