Studio: Electronic Arts
Job Opening: Animator – American Football
Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Orlando, United States of America
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Clean up motion capture data, with an emphasis on stylization, needed for a specific area or feature of the game.
- Collaborate with designers and engineers to ensure that your animations meet all needs of the feature.
- Work with the Animation Director and Leads to deliver quality animation that meets expectations.
- Implement animation into the engine, test and debug issues.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Production experience animating in Maya and Motion Builder.
- Experience both motion capture and hand-keying animations.
- Comfortable with editing motion capture data’s posing, staging, and timing in order to produce stylized athletic performances.
- Minimum of 3 years of professional animation experience.
- Strong desire to learn new workflows and software.
- Aspirations to take ownership of a specific area of the game or feature.
- Good communication and organizational skills.
- Love sports and games, of all kinds.
- Experience working on diverse animation styles.
- Frostbite Experience
- Experience with Slack/Jira/Shotgrid
- Knowledge of state machines, motion matching, or cinematography
