Spearhead Games, is an award-winning independent Game Development studio, creators of Stories: The Path of Destinies and Omensight, is looking for an Animator to join a dynamic and passionate team, and work on an exciting and innovative new project.

We specialize in building our own IPs, targeted at consoles and PC. Driven by a passion for our craft and a strong foundation of design methodology, we focus on fostering innovation, and delivering awesome experiences to our players. We want to position ourselves to have a meaningful and positive influence on the field we love, through the games we make, but also in the way we make these games. We believe that developing a video game can be an amazing experience.

We strive to build a positive, stimulating environment, where everyone has an opportunity to grow in their craft. We value autonomy, initiative and ownership. We believe in collaboration and think everyone in the team should have a voice in shaping the games we deliver.‍

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Job description

• Responsible of animations for gameplay and for scripted events
• Responsible for rigging and skinning characters
• Responsible of integrating animations
• Responsible for the technical requirements of animation
• Work closely with engineers for the technical implementation of animation
• Work closely with designers to understand and comply with functional and gameplay requirements of animation
• Work closely with the art team to insure animation style is consistent with the art direction
• Help the project manager to estimate working time and plan tasks, and follow up with other team members involved in specific features to insure a quality and timely delivery.

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‍Essential Requirements

• At least 3 years experience as an Animator in games or 2 games shipped
• Autonomous and flexible
• Good communication skills
• Good collaboration skills
• Capable of receiving and collecting feedback, improving and iterating on animations
• Strong sense of animation aesthetics‍

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‍‍Important

• Experience in UE4, including Blueprint, Montage, AnimBP, etc.
• Technical animation skills, including rigging, gameplay animation integration, etc.
  

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Spearhead Games is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginals, visible minorities, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities to apply.

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‍How to Apply

If interested in joining our team, please send your cv to info@spearheadgames.ca. Note that while we are open to remote candidates, preference will be given to those in Montreal who can join us on-site in the studio.

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About Us

Spearhead Games is a Montreal, Canada-based independent studio. The studio’s first title, cooperative action puzzler Tiny Brains for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC, followed the antics of four super-powered lab animals in their quest to escape a mad scientist’s nefarious tests. The studio’s next game, a competitive physics based video game called Arena Cyber Evolution (ACE), is an experiment in community development. Spearhead Games boasts AAA talent, founded by Simon Darveau, design director on Assassin’s Creed® III, Malik Boukhira, game designer on Assassin’s Creed 2 and Dead Space™ 3, and Atul Mehra, development director on the Army of TWO™ franchise.

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About Our Games

Project Witchstone is a living and reactive world where players will be offered unprecedented options to role play their character and influence their environment, capturing the fun and freedom of a pen & paper RPG campaign. On an island of endless possibilities, you find yourself caught between rival factions vying for a mysterious and all-powerful resource. Will you be a villain, a hero, or a self-serving schemer? Do your actions result in everlasting peace or an ultra-violent end?

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In Omensight, you are the Harbinger, a mythical warrior who only appears in times of crisis. The land of Urralia is torn by war. But there is worse: as night falls, you witness the destruction of the world at the hands of a dark God.

You are granted the power to relive this final day. Lead the investigation and appear alongside characters who played a part in the apocalypse, fight with them or against them, and use your Omensight power to weave a new narrative.

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Stories: The Path of Destinies is an action-RPG set in a vibrant fairytale universe filled with floating islands, majestic airships, and colorful magic. Reynardo, ex-pirate and unintentional hero, suddenly becomes the last line of the defense against the mad Emperor and his countless ravens. Can he come up with a plan that won’t blow up in his face, for a change?

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