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Principal Animator
1 year ago
Position Overview
As a member of the Zynga animation team, your role will be to get involved in the creation of all kinds of cool animations, striving to achieve the highest possible quality of art within Zynga games. You will work closely with the teams during game development and contribute to the company’s research and development.
Main Responsibilities
- The Animator will be working with a team of Designers, Concept Artists, Technical Artists and Software Engineers to develop amazing 2.5D characters and animation
- The Animator’s duties consist of a mixture of Character and Prop modeling, Rigging, Texturing, and Animation using a variety of tools and techniques, following a well documented Animation Pipeline
- Contribute effectively to the art pipeline while understanding target platform constraints
- Deliver high-quality work, consistently meeting project deadlines/milestones
- Collaborate with the rest of the Animation Team to obtain a consistent visual style for the game
Required Experience & Qualifications
- High level of English, both written and spoken (English is our official language!)
- Total Work experience of 10+ years in animation
- 3+ years of 3D game animation experience would be a plus
- Excellent knowledge of Autodesk Maya
- Strong principles of Design and Animation
- Mid - Advanced Skill: 3D modeling (Maya, Max, Blender etc),
- Mid - Advanced Skill: Rigging & Skinning (Maya)
- The ability to provide and receive feedback
- Software experience in: Maya, Unity, Photoshop, Perforce, Git
- Basic Skill: UV Mapping
- Please share your Portfolio link
Nice to have
- Basic Unity experience (Project workflow, implementation, etc)
- Basic 2D or 3D texturing knowledge (Photoshop, Zbrush, Procreate, Substance Painter, Blender, Etc)
What we offer you:
- Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
- Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme
- Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
- Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
- Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
- Well stocked pantry
- Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Active Employee Resource Groups – Women at Zynga
- Frequent employee events
- Additional leave options for most employees
- Flexible working hours on many teams
- Casual dress every single day
- Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!
We are an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome job-seekers, players, employees, and partners from all backgrounds to join us!
We will consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at AccommodationRequest@zynga.com to request an accommodation associated with your application for an open position.
Zynga does not engage in financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process. We do not conduct job interviews over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp or others. We will never ask you for your personal or financial information over unofficial chat channels. Our in-house recruitment team only contacts individuals via official company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com or naturalmotion.com email domain).
If you believe you have been the victim of a scam, you may wish to contact the authorities. In the United States, you may file a complaint with the FBI. More information is available here: https://www.ic3.gov.
Zynga does not engage in financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process. We do not conduct job interviews over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp or others. We will never ask you for your personal or financial information over unofficial chat channels. Our in-house recruitment team only contacts individuals via official company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com or naturalmotion.com email domain).
If you believe you have been the victim of a scam, you may wish to contact the authorities. In the United States, you may file a complaint with the FBI. More information is available here: https://www.ic3.gov.
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