Animator (Contract)

Requisition Number: 168527

Position Title: Animator

External Description:

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sports through industry-leading sports videogames, including Madden NFL football, FIFA Soccer, PGA TOUR® golf and UFC. For more information about EA SPORTS, including news, video, blogs, forums and game apps, please visit www.easports.com.

Role Overview:

Animators portray movement and behavior by building their animations from connecting through production, at multiple points in the asset pipeline.

Responsibilities:

• Create high-quality animation using a variety of tools and techniques including hand key, motion capture cleanup, motion blending.
• Ensure all animations contribute to the direction of the game, both in the experience and the story being told

Qualifications:

• Animate both human and quadruped characters
• Show believable weight, personality, and mood, through realistic performances - this includes interactions with props and/or vehicles
• Proficiency in animation packages including Maya and MotionBuilder
• Familiarity of animation and motion capture production processes
• Production experience or demonstrated ability of working in a production game engine (e.g. Unreal, Unity, Frostbite)
• Learn and work with proprietary animation run-time integration tools
• Understand feedback, interpret notes, and provide animation revisions at expected quality levels and within schedule needs
• Work as part a team, responsible for organizing their work within the production schedule, managing files, and meeting deadlines
• Collaborate with project animation directors, management, animators, production staff and peers
• Degree in Fine Arts or Computer Animation

Pluses:

• Motion capture cleanup experience
• Technical animation background
• Passion for making and playing games

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Community / Marketing Title: Animator (Contract)

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

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Days Open: 174

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.