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Senior Animator

SENIOR ANIMATOR

EA Canada

We’re looking for a talented, passionate and experienced Senior Animator reports to our Senior Animation Director to join an established team of developers working on a successful AAA live service competitive shooter.

You will motion-edit and key-frame expressive, stylized performances to a very high standard.

You will work with the Animation Director to help establish and realize the style and personality for both cinematic and gameplay related character animations.

What you’ll do...

• Work with the Animation Director to establish the core posing, behavior and movement style of our characters > always looking for opportunities to emphasize the personalities of our characters.
• Animate characters using motion capture (body) and key-framing (body and face) to achieve the high-quality, characterful performances that we work toward
• Help inspire the animation team towards reaching a high level of quality for all character animation (both gameplay and cinematic related)
• We take a huge amount of pride in our work - our animations both inspire and energize the team
• Work with Designers and Engineers to ensure that we're meeting both gameplay and technical/engine related requirements
• Our studio puts a lot of emphasis on FEEL - achieving both immersive and responsive gameplay
• Support the technical implementation of your animations across the game
• Work together with Character Artists and Riggers to establish both core and secondary functionality of our characters
• Work with Technical Artist’s/Animator’s and Engineers to solve any technical issues that arise with both 1st and 3rd party tools and software
• Help establish efficient pipelines and procedures

Ideally, you will have…

• A passionate animator who truly cares about how we realize characterful performances - striving to push the quality bar.
• At least 2 years of experience animating in a senior capacity for video games, TV or movies.
• Experience creating polished performances that use a more exaggerated and expressive animation style
• Key-frame characters at an advanced level
• Experience editing and plusing motion capture data to achieve more stylized performances
• Experience key-framing expressive facial performances
• A high level of proficiency working with Maya
• Experience working with, and providing feedback to both artists and technical artists/animators
• Have a very positive outlook and an approachable persona !

Beneficial experience

• A keen gamer who is especially passionate about character-centric experiences
• Experience animating cameras, especially in combination with more action oriented set pieces
• Understand cinematography
• Experience working with Motion Builder beneficial
• Experience mentoring other animators
• Experience working with Jira (or similar)
• Hands-on skills and the desire to take map designs from vision to playable experiences.
• The ability to analyze metrics or other feedback methods to evaluate and improve your work.