Lead Cinematic Designer

Description

Lead Cinematic Designer


The team at 2K Marin is looking for someone with both the technical chops and audiovisual storytelling sense to blend animation, audio, FX and environment into AAA-quality narrative scenes. You'll work closely with storyboard artists and creative leads to define the structure of in-game narrative sequences, pull in resources from several departments to make it happen, and work with level designers and architects to bring scenes to shipping quality.


Job Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of cinematic designers responsible for the delivery of all in-game cinematics and scripted events.
• Work with the production team to schedule the workload of all cinematic designers.
• Ensure consistency of quality and presentation across all in-game cinematics and scripted events.
• Work with Cinematic Director to ensure cinematics and scripted events meet the high level aesthetic, narrative and design goals of the game.
• Interpret storyboards and scripts into effective real-time narrative moments.
• Create and manage animatics and layout.
• Personally create a subset of in-game cinematic and scripted events using the Unreal Editor, Matinee and our proprietary scripting system.
• Co-ordinate with animators, FX artists, level designers and level architects to integrate all cinematic elements.
• Co-ordinate with the design team to hook narrative and scripted moments into level design
• Present scripted events in bi-weekly “dailies”.