BioWare: Animator

Requisition Number: 156463

Position Title: Animator 2

External Description:

BioWare's vision is to create, deliver, and evolve the most emotionally engaging games in the world.

BioWare develops high-quality console, PC, and online role-playing games focused on rich stories, unforgettable characters, and vast worlds to discover. Since 1995, BioWare has created some of the world's most critically acclaimed titles, including Baldur's Gate™, Neverwinter Nights™, Star Wars ™: Knights of the Old Republic™, Jade Empire™, Mass Effect™, Dragon Age™ and Star Wars ™: The Old Republic™. BioWare operates in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada), Montreal (Quebec, Canada), and Austin (Texas, United States). In 2008, BioWare was acquired by Electronic Arts, a leading global interactive entertainment publisher.

BioWare is seeking an 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 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 handcrafted 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

Contact: Katie Bieber – kbieber@ea.com;

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.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

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Days Open: 11

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.