Animation Director - College Football

Requisition Number: 176087

Position Title: Animation Director

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 sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

As an Animation Director you will ensure that everything that moves in the game achieves the AAA quality expected in all EA sports titles. You will accomplish this by managing the work of the animation team, working directly with the senior leaders of the studio and across EA, and ensuring the appropriate technologies, methodologies, and skills are being used to maximum effectiveness.

You will:

• Determine and accomplish the vision and quality bar of all motion in the game.
• Guide the quality of animation balancing performance, quality, continuity, technical, scheduling and budgetary requirements
• Manage the work of our animation team
• Provide daily feedback and direction to the animation team
• Guide the evolution strategy of the animation pipeline, establish efficient animation procedures

Working directly with:

• The creative and visual leadership to establish the animation direction, style, quality, and execution
• Designers and engineers to achieve compelling character and camera motion
• Technical animators, character riggers and modelers to ensure our characters move & deform beautifully
• Graphics engineers to ensure characters are grounded in the world with VFX like grass and weather, shadows, lighting.
• Physics engineers to ensure characters align with the physical limitations you determine and work with other characters and the environment in believable ways

Skills you have:

• A great eye for style and quality, combined with a deep technical skill set
• Experience in visual and technical innovation
• 8+ years of directing animation with excellent credentials on high credibility AAA games
• Team leadership, people and mentoring skills
• You can inspire and lead teams to accomplish time and to budget
• You can guide a team to balance creative goals with the requirements of production
• You can direct actors and other motion capture talent
• Knowledge of common practices and the understanding of industry trends
• You can setup and work with animation blending trees and state machines

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Community / Marketing Title: Animation Director - College Football

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. este o companie de divertisment interactiv, lider la nivel mondial. EA oferă jocuri, conținut și servicii online pentru console conectate la Internet, calculatoare personale, telefoane mobile și tablete.

EEOText: EA este un angajator care oferă oportunități egale. Toate deciziile de angajare sunt luate fără a ține seama de rasă, culoare, origine națională, descendență, sex, identitate sau exprimare de gen, orientare sexuală, vârstă, informații genetice, religie, dizabilități, stare medicală, sarcină, stare civilă, statut familial, statut de veteran sau orice altă caracteristică protejată de lege. De asemenea, acceptăm și candidaturi calificate din partea persoanelor cu cazier, în conformitate cu legislația aplicabilă. De asemenea, EA oferă locuri de muncă pentru persoanele cu handicap calificate, conform legislației aplicabile.

Days Open: 112

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA este un angajator care oferă oportunități egale. Toate deciziile de angajare sunt luate fără a ține seama de rasă, culoare, origine națională, descendență, sex, identitate sau exprimare de gen, orientare sexuală, vârstă, informații genetice, religie, dizabilități, stare medicală, sarcină, stare civilă, statut familial sau statut de veteran. De asemenea, EA oferă locuri de muncă pentru persoanele cu handicap calificate, conform legislației aplicabile.