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3D Animator

Uken’s Growth Team is responsible for building and driving high scale user acquisition campaigns to bring games to a world wide audience and is adding a 3D Animator to the team. This role will create and produce pre-rendered animated sequences using characters and props from our titles, as well as still renders for use in marketing, gameplay trailers, social media posts, and in-game pop ups.

You’ll be working on meaningful things like:

• Creating character and environment/prop animations and pre-rendered sequences for use in marketing and social media campaigns
• Supporting project style and character personalities through your animations
• Posing and rendering out character stills based on marketing and in-game needs
• Setting up basic scenes and adjusting lighting based on feedback

Your background should include:

• Comfort animating using Maya
• Experience with basic scene setup and rendering in Maya
• A strong understanding and feel for the Principles of Animation and body mechanics
• Comfort storyboarding out narrative beats
• Good communication skills and the ability to tackle tasks and feedback constructively
• The following skills are nice to have: compositing, lighting, and/or digital visual effects experience, modelling, rigging, and/or texturing and experience working within a game engine
• Portfolio demonstrating relevant animation skills is required for consideration

We believe in a fun and meaningful office environment:

• You’ll be equipped with a high-end PC or laptop
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Fully catered lunch, breakfast, and a snack filled kitchen
• Uken social nights including mixers, game night and more…
• Convenient location at Front & John St.

Note: Due to Covid-19 restrictions, this role will begin as a work from home position and will move to the office when restrictions are lifted.

About Us

Uken builds games that people everywhere love. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Jeopardy! World Tour are the top 2 trivia games, engaging millions of global players every month.

We consider ourselves data driven designers, technologists, and artists. Through collaboration, we pair the craft of design with feedback and data to deliver a pace and rhythm in each game session that immerses our audience and leaves them wanting more. We have a quirky, nerdy culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, quality ideas, and a data driven mindset. We believe in moving quickly and improving constantly and that mantra is reflected in the weekly updates we make to our games and internal technologies. We have an appetite for pushing technical boundaries with a focus on practical use.

We take entertainment seriously.

Uken welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who would contribute to the further diversification of our team.

Uken is committed to offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at jobs@uken.com