Senior Associate Game Animator

Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder its all about the games and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology products and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

Experience: 2 to 5 Years

Essential Job Functions:

• Create high-caliber Animation maintaining excellent motion graphics quality in regard to timing color theory layout text treatment and animation ability.
• Continually sharpen artistic and software expertise through company training independent learning and learning from other team members.
• Produce top-notch animations through an iterative process in close collaboration with Senior and Lead Animators.
• Always display a high degree of professionalism accepting critique from team members.
• Show efficiency in self-managing time with a reasonable degree of accountability and minimal instruction
• Demonstrate excellent file structure and organization.
• Create art assets and document all art assets created with minimal mistakes.
• Review game art files prior to archival.

Qualifications:

• Preferred Education:Bachelor of Arts in art/animation
• Preferred Experience:2 years previous experience Animator in a production environment

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Proficient in 2D Animation After Effects Unity Photoshop.
• Critical thinking skills are an absolute must in this fast-paced high-output team
• Understand how to animate art for various themes and platforms
• Excellent motion graphics abilities using various industry standards plugins like Trap code Suite Boris Saphire Saber and Element 3D.
• Expert with Adobe photoshop Illustrator design is a must.
• Should have technical knowledge of adjusting art file resolutions and modifying After Effects compositions to fit different templates.
• Must follow good file management practices.
• Should be able to export files in various formats using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Should have strong typography skills.
• Exposure to Spine 2d tool for sprite rigging and animation.
• Knowledge of using Blender 3ds max or Maya is a must.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications