Principal Animator

1 week ago

Bengaluru, India Zynga Full time

**Position Overview**

You will confidently and respectfully challenge the status quo in order to improve things. Assertive when needed, you voice concerns, generate ideas for improvements, and stay on the cutting edge of animation technology and technique. Confident in your decision making, you nevertheless think carefully before you speak and act.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Produce high quality animation using animation principles for characters, environments, UI, VFX.
- Encouraging and generating creative ideas and solutions with the team.
- Demonstrate excellent time management, to deliver animation to required quality, specification and time.
- Proficient level of communication and emotional intelligence for cross discipline collaboration and problem solving.
- Demonstrate strong understanding of how animation supports gameplay and narrative with the ability to communicate these links to the team.
- Demonstrate proficiency in 3D animation software (e.g. Maya, Blender, Unity).
- Assist in the preparation of assets for animation using Photoshop.
- Prioritizing optimization when integrating animations within a game team’s game engine.

**Desired Skills and Experience**
- 10+ years of game development experience.
- Senior level animation skills (2D/3D, character, environment, UI, VFX)
- Senior level communication and problem solving skills.
- The ability to provide and receive feedback.
- Software experience in: Maya, Unity, Photoshop, Perforce, Git
- Technical experience modeling, skinning and rigging 2D/3D assets/characters.
- Knowledge of game development on multiple projects, enabling pragmatic, strategic judgements and providing creative ideas and solutions to the team.
- Proven experience delivering animations on ambitious timelines.
- Experience working on business level tasks, e.g. cross discipline pipeline development.
- Excellent showreel.
- A love of games

**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.

**Careers Category**: Art & Animation

**Careers location**: Bengaluru, India, Remote, India

**Connected Worker Type**: Connected, Onsite, Offsite

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