Animator Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional animation experience, including experience working on AAA console titles.
• Solid first-person and cinematic animation skills, with excellent awareness of timing, weight, and composition.
• Highly demonstrated skills in 3D animation principles and techniques.
• Solid understanding of cinematography language and storytelling techniques.
• Ability to quickly learn and master new tools, processes, and pipelines.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively, providing direction to drive scene vision across disciplines and departments.
• Ability to contribute to a highly creative team and give and receive feedback.
• Positive attitude and pride in the quality of work.
• Portfolio submission required, focused on personal contributions and including a shot breakdown of work directly created.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in first-person shooter games.
• Extensive knowledge of the Call of Duty games.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Narrative team to create cinematics and scripted in-game animations.
• Create polished action, cinematic, dialogue, and supporting animations using motion capture and hand-key authoring techniques.
• Create previsualizations and present animation concepts to the Narrative team.
• Collaborate with teams across the studio to meet project goals and deliver high-quality work.
• Help troubleshoot animation and technical issues.
• Partner with the Technical Animation team to improve tools and pipelines and provide feedback on their development.
• Implement and maintain animations in the game engine using proprietary tools.
• Use generative AI tools for creative exploration.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, and dependent care spending accounts.
• Life and AD&D insurance and disability insurance.
• 401(k) with Company match.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, and floating holidays.
• Compassion and bereavement leaves and parental leave.
• Mental health and wellbeing programs and fitness programs.
• Free and discounted games.
• Other voluntary benefits, including supplemental life and disability coverage, legal services, ID protection, and rental insurance.
• Relocation assistance may be available if the Company requires a geographic move for the job.
• Employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation; it is not guaranteed.