Associate Artist, Motion Design - Activision

Activision Blizzard • Santa Monica, CA

12h • $22 - $40 • Onsite

About The Position

As an Associate Artist, Motion Design, you will use a wide range of animation, visual effects, and compositing techniques to create visually compelling and impactful motion elements. This role must execute a wide range of generalist tasks at a high level of visual quality, while working efficiently and intelligently under tight deadlines to support motion assets for marketing campaigns including gameplay trailers, social content, and in-game promotional elements.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of professional motion design experience or equivalent portfolio development.
• Portfolio showcasing ability to concept, plan and execute original motion design work
• Working knowledge of Adobe After Effects including:
• Proficiency with graph editor and Bezier animation curves
• Proficiency with motion blur, easing, and secondary animation
• Proficiency with masking, rotoscoping, and keying techniques
• Familiarity with depth of field, parallax, and multi-plane setups
• Familiarity with Particular, Optical Flares and other commonly-used plugins
• Awareness of project optimizations for render efficiency and performance
• Proficiency with Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro
• Familiarity with design principles such as hierarchy, balance and contrast
• Familiarity with common delivery workflows, codecs and technical specs
• Experience with social media best practices, both creative and technical
• Comfortable with tight deadlines, shifting priorities and prioritizing multiple tasks
• Humble, communicative, and open to growth

Nice To Haves

• Experience with 3D packages such as Cinema 4D or Blender
• Experience with games industry marketing or product development

Responsibilities

• Create original motion graphics and visual effects assets including title cards, animation loops, and custom FX
• Perform visual effects tasks including tracking, keying, rotoscoping and compositing
• Build organized, efficient projects for shared use by team and wider organization
• Update or repurpose existing projects from teammates or external sources
• Interpret and address feedback from creative directors and other stakeholders
• Follow and maintain standards for visual quality, brand guidelines, and production best practices
• Follow team process for media management, organization, and archiving

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed