CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Senior Gameplay Animator with a focus on locomotion to join our Boston hub and the team working on Cyberpunk 2, the next mainline Cyberpunk 2077 game.
As a hands-on individual contributor, you will define the look and feel of player and NPC locomotion鈥攆rom grounded movement to cybernetically motivated actions鈥攆or a high-quality animation experience. You will work from previsualization and prototyping through final in-engine implementation, collaborating with Art, Design, Technical Animation, and Engineering. Your goal will be to ensure animation content and runtime systems deliver a responsive, readable, and compelling player experience, setting the quality bar and best practices for locomotion animation across gameplay.
Daily Responsibilities:
- Drive locomotion animation quality for player and NPC movement across gameplay states and contexts.
- Partner with the Animation Lead and key stakeholders to align animation quality, style, and execution with the project鈥檚 aesthetic goals, gameplay pillars, and overall player experience.
- Collaborate daily within a cross-disciplinary team to define gameplay experiential goals and deliver features from concept through final implementation.
- Create pre-visualizations and prototypes to assist in communication and development.
- Create high-quality finished animation using hand-keyed, procedurally generated animation, and motion capture techniques to achieve seamless, expressive, reactive movement.
- Implement and iterate within Unreal Engine to ensure locomotion animation feels responsive, readable, and polished in real-time gameplay.
- Research, explore and advocate new techniques, systems, and workflows to improve animation quality, efficiency, and support evolving gameplay and previsualization needs.
- Curate motion capture shot list and provide performance direction, preparing locomotion patterns and reference videos, and assisting on-stage as necessary.
- Provide clear feedback and animation insight during reviews and collaborations, helping raise quality.
- Provide mentorship, inspiration, and support to early-career animators through feedback, collaboration, and example.