Advanced Game Animator

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Position Summary

**Job Description**:
Animator: Delivers control and movement to characters, creatures, objects, scenery and environment displayed within electronic games, websites or software products. Applies knowledge and uses technical process ability in techniques such as rigging and skinning, kinetics and basic cinematography. Collaborates with programmers and artists to balance seamless movements and optimized performance on the target platform. Applies developed skills, knowledge and proficiency in at least one animation package, such as 3D Studio Max, Character Studio or Maya to work product.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Job Level Description- Senior 3D artist requirements:
- Create both stylized and realistic animations
- Understand real-time and prerendered production pipelines with a focus on Animation
- Interpret artistic direction with ease
- Maintain the production schedule and communicate any deadline concerns
- Problem solve creative challenges on the fly
- Work closely with Lead Artist to produce high-quality 3D animations in an iterative process
- Maintain excellent file structure and organization
- Able to filter and evaluate criticism on a professional level
- Continually sharpen 3D artistic abilities and software expertise through company training, independent learning, and learning from other team members
- Experience in game development animating characters
- Strong skills in animating humanoid bipeds, quadrupeds, and other creatures
- Strong skills with animation workflows
- Strong understanding of rigging
- Expertise in 3ds Max, Maya or equivalent 3D programs (3DS Max preferred)
- Excellent design and compositional skills
- Ability to self-manage time with a reasonable degree of accountability and mínimal instruction
- A great attitude and team player
- Really nice to haves:
- Have an ability to model both organic and hard-surface meshes
- Have excellent knowledge of 3ds Max
- Have experience with Unity
- Have experience rendering with VRay or equivalent
- Have an understanding of color theory and lighting
- Have experience with Substance Painter
- Have compositing experience using After Effects or equivalent
- Have a foundation in the traditional arts
- You love to solve problems and you love to collaborate. Creating entertainment experiences is a team effort and you thrive when exploring ideas and working with others.
- You love games, movies, animation, and you love dissecting them while thinking how to take them to the next level.

Work Conditions
Light & Wonder, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “L&W”) are engaged in the highly regulated gaming business. As a result, L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, and/or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. To ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting due diligence and a background investigation on you.
This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.-
Additional Job Description- Additional Job Description- Education
Bachelors degree in related field.
- Years of Related Experience
Years of experience 8+ Years
- Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.
- Work Conditions
Light & Wonder, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “L&W”) are engaged in the highly regulated gaming business. As a result, L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, and/or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. To ensure L&W complies with its regulato