BioWare: Animator Contract

Requisition Number: 118476

Position Title: Animator 2

External Description:

At BioWare, our mission is to create worlds of adventure, conflict, and companionship that inspire you to become the hero of your story.  Our teams drive innovation using cutting-edge tech and tools such as the Frostbite engine and collaborate with thousands of world-class developers across EA’s network of studios.  We are passionate about games and their potential as a creative medium to reach and inspire people through emotion, artistry, and engaging storytelling.  If you share this passion, this is an amazing opportunity to help shape the next generation of gaming.

 

BioWare is seeking a Contract Animator to join our Star Wars: The Old Republic team. In this role you will work with the existing animation systems of SWTOR and craft cutting edge animations for all aspects of the game.

 

What the Contract Animator will do at BioWare:

• Animate dynamic, believable, and appealing characters for both in-game and cut scene environments
• Responsible for an animation or cinematic animation, seeing it through to completion
• Responsible for completing work in a timely manner, to the highest quality possible
• Produces 3D animation including both hand crafted and mocap cleanup
• Partners with designers, programmers and other team members involved in the development of products
• Interacts with peers or managers in other units/teams/projects and/or vendors
• Participates in the design of our products from concept to completion 

 

Who You Are:

• University degree or formal vocational training in Animation is preferred.
• Experience in animation including: bi-peds and multi-legged figures.
• Experience and confirmed ability in successfully creating and implementing both key-frame and motion capture animation
• Thorough and solid understanding of animation theory and the principles of animation such as timing, weighting, performance and poses
• Self-motivated, problem-solver and a great team-player

 

Portfolio Requirements:

• All portfolios must contain a detailed shot breakdown of the work. It must be very clear what you, the applicant, are responsible for in your reel, screenshots, scanned pictures, web page portfolio, etc.
• Examples of various animations applied to humanoid figures and animal figures
• Examples of cinematic work
• Examples of various animations cycles applied to game characters
• Examples of motion capture direction and clean-up

 

 

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, RRSP company match and, of course, many other perks! And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off of creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

 

More about our location: http://careers.ea.com/our-locations/austin

 

EA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. è un'azienda di software di intrattenimento interattivo leader globale. EA offre giochi, contenuti e servizi online per console collegate ad internet, personal computer, cellulari e tablet.

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Days Open: 139

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA promuove le pari opportunità. Qualsiasi decisione di impiego viene fatta senza discriminazione di razza, colore, nazionalità, origini, sesso, genere, identità o espressione di genere, orientamento sessuale, età, informazione genetica, religione, invalidità, condizione medica, gravidanza, stato civile, stato familiare o anzianità. EA rende accessibile il posto di lavoro per gli individui diversamente abili, come indicato dalla legge.