Game Animator

Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s 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 6 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

- 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. - Bachelor of Arts in art/animation (preferred). - 2+ years previous experience as an Animator in a production environment (preferred).