Animator

Gaming:

Position Summary

Qualifications

• Training and/or Experience
• 2+ years of professional experience in 2D/3D animation and/or motion graphic design
• Gaming industry experience is preferred but not required
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Proficiency in industry standard 3D packages (Maya, Blender, 3DMax)
• Proficient in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop
• Adaptable to AI workflows
• Proficiency in compositing and rotoscoping a plus
• Familiarity with Unity a plus
• Familiarity with shaders and shader creation/coding a plus
• Builds understanding of business expectations
• Have a strong sense of design, motion, and timing
• Have a strong sense of storyboarding for 2D/3D animation
• Ability to work well with others in a team environment
• Ability to receive art direction and provide multiple design solutions
• Ability to adapt to new technologies
• Enjoy working in a creative environment
• Learns, and contributes where possible to company culture, and finds opportunities to reinforce L&W values.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required
• Physical Requirements
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.
• Work Conditions
• Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.
• This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.
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• Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required

Preferred Qualifications

• Gaming industry experience is preferred but not required
• Proficiency in compositing and rotoscoping a plus
• Familiarity with Unity a plus
• Familiarity with shaders and shader creation/coding a plus