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Senior Animator

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Senior Animator, Unannounced Project

Unannounced Project – Irvine

We’re a new Blizzard development team and we’re looking for a talented and inspiring senior animator to help us build a new unannounced project. Your goal is to bring characters, creatures, and all kinds of critters to life along with helping develop the animation style and production pipeline for this new Blizzard game. Ultimately, you’re combining inspiring art with great gameplay while actively communicating and thriving on a small team.

DAY TO DAY TASKS

• Animating a diverse range of compelling, alluring, and epic characters and creatures to support unique and dynamic gameplay.
• Partnering with the animation team to develop a unique animation style and visual direction for the project.
• Collaborating with designers, tech artists, and engineers to integrate the animation assets into the engine and identify technical issues that might arise.
• Partnering with engineers and tech artists to help support and develop an effective animation pipeline for prototyping, and a rapid iteration mindset for game development.
• Partnering with other artists, designers, and engineers to collaborate on creatively complex assignments to develop an inspiring creative vision for this new Blizzard experience.

YOUR BACKGROUND

• 5+ years professional experience animating characters and creatures in Maya (or equivalent 3D programs).
• You have an exceptional understanding of human and creature anatomy and a keen eye towards creatively representing their movements in unique and inspiring ways.
• You might have experience creating animation blend trees; previous experience with node-based animation editors.
• You might know enough basic modeling and rigging to be dangerous on a small prototyping team, and you can lovingly polish your animations to bring them to life. Either way, you figure out how to get inspiring art content and animation into the game quickly.
• You love to solve problems and you love to collaborate. Creating epic entertainment experiences is a team effort, and you thrive when exploring ideas and working with others.
• You love games, movies, feature animations and enjoy thinking about how to take them to the next level.
• You have a passion for Blizzard games, and you understand the unique approach to creating Blizzard art for our game universes.

SEND US

• Resume
• Portfolio – Only digital applications will be accepted such as a website, blog, or online album. Physical media will not be accepted.
• An art test may be required