Cinematics Director
Yotta Games – Why Join Us:
Yotta’s huge fanbase has helped turn us into a globally ranked game developer with offices worldwide. Despite our success, at heart we are still players trying to create exciting and engaging, never-before-experienced games. That drive to make games that we want to play is what animates our well-resourced, ambitious, creative team members. Working together in a supportive, open workplace and taking cues from our gaming communities, we create products that entertain the world.
Responsibilities:
Yotta is in the process of staffing up the R&D team located in Los Angeles, with talented game professionals to build our first AAA open world game project. We are looking for a talented and experienced cinematics expert to present a highly engaging cinematic experience for this project.
You will report to the game producer and collaborate with other teams, such as the narrative, cinematics and animation, to provide a higher standard of the game cinematics production.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Oversee all visual storytelling to ensure that the game project achieves a cinematic and unforgettable look.
- Direct cutscene production from script to screen, motivating the team along the way by advocating for a cinematic approach that inspires the team.
- Work within a team of cinematic professionals and make sure to meet the required deadlines.
- Blocking scenes; selecting shots, movements, and angles;
- Coordinate with the studio lighting artists and narrative designers to achieve the desired look for each scene.
Qualifications
We Expect You To Have:
- Bachelor degree or above, with a major related to film production.
- Over 5 years’ experience in the game industry working on game cinematics.
- Deep familiarity with cinematic storytelling pipeline: script, storyboard, animatics, previz, and beautifully rendered cutscenes.
- Experience mentoring or managing a team of game cinematics professionals to produce cutscenes that advance game narratives with the efficiency and aesthetics of mainstream movies.
- Confidence in communicating the cinematic vision of a project to performers and studio staff such that the game project begins to feel like an exciting blockbuster movie.
- Experience in successfully shipping multiple AAA titles that feature noteworthy cinematic cutscenes.
- Knowledge of shot selections and the use of movement libraries to compose scenes that feel fresh and unique.
- Experience running motion and performance capture sessions for scenes that can’t be built from movement libraries.
- Technical grasp of the finer points of visual storytelling in games, including shot selection and perspective.
- Ability to collaborate with other storytelling professionals, i.e., Narrative Designers, to create the most impactful scenes possible.
Even Better If You Have:
- Passion for crime genre games or crime fiction.
- Experience of Unreal 5 cinematic tools.
- Experience working with international teams in different time zones.
Additional Information:
- This is a hybrid role based in Los Angeles (currently hybrid because of pandemic);
- Current working hours: Monday – Friday, 11am – 8pm Pacific Time (including one-hour break);
- Salary depending on experience.
Yotta is committed to building an inclusive environment where creative professionals from a multitude of diverse cultural backgrounds collaborate to inspire audiences and each other. We are passionately supportive of equality in all its forms and never discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, orientation, identity, national origin, handicap, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law.
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