Torn Banner Studios

• Lead and support a team of design experts through performance management, career development, weekly check-ins, and goal setting. • Define and manage milestones for the Design team while balancing employee well being and business needs. • Monitor team progress and proactively adjust plans to keep initiatives on track. • Identify and improve workflows and task-related processes to increase efficiency and team performance. • Effectively communicate with team members and leadership to proactively resolve conflicts and deliver solutions. • Foster a positive, collaborative, and highly engaged team culture while maintaining accountability and continuous feedback. • Build and maintain strong relationships across departments, breaking down silos and promoting collaboration to achieve studio-wide objectives. • Champion employee development through mentorship and learning opportunities. • Depending on experience and interest, there is also an opportunity to act as the design owner for the design space surrounding PvE Encounter Design, Bot AI Design, and Bot Combat Rules within the project.

• Create high quality animations for cinematics and marketing material. • Innovate our cinematic animation pipeline. • Accomplish realistic results that create memorable scenes and impactful moments in trailers. • Collaborating in a multi-disciplinary team, participating in team reviews and creative discussions • Design and polish character performances for both pre-rendered and real-time cinematics. • Ensure cinematic content aligns with the visual style, tone, and creative vision of the project. • Create and maintain animation documentation, workflows, and best practices for the cinematic team. • Integrate and troubleshoot animation assets within Unreal Engine, ensuring seamless implementation. • Work with motion capture data, including cleanup, retargeting, editing, and performance enhancement. • Partner with Technical Animators to improve cinematic tools, rigs, and animation pipelines. • Manage end-to-end motion capture workflows, from shoot planning through final animation polish. • Mentor junior animators and contribute to team knowledge sharing initiatives.

• See playable environments through from conception to completion. • Produce photorealistic asset and environments. • Work closely with the level design team and other artists to bring the concepts to life. • Plan, estimate and prioritize time frames for the completion of tasks while tracking progress. • Help identify and fix bugs, including performance and budget issues. • Implement and incorporate feedback from Director and Leads into work. • Work with the team to achieve the desired level of quality and technical accuracy. • Help define best practices for our production workflows. • Participate in brainstorming and concept development sessions, contributing fresh ideas and innovative approaches.