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

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