Job Description

Requisition Number: 176269

Position Title: Senior Animator

External Description:

About the Organization: EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in sports & entertainment with nearly 30 years of innovation, passion, and connection of millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and athletes. We are creating a team to build a new unannounced AAA EA SPORTS product across platforms. This is your opportunity to join this new team that will shape the future of interactive entertainment and create the next great EA SPORTS game.

About our team: We are starting a new team composed of a mixture of veterans of EA/EA SPORTS and new talent from across industries. With some of the most valuable sports IP in the world, and the resources EA has to offer, we have access to the capabilities needed to deliver amazing new experiences for an expanded audience of players worldwide.

About the role: Animators are responsible for portraying movement and behavior. Animators must be able to create emotionally believable characters that allow game players to interact with the game, whether photo realistic or stylized, in a realistic and believable fashion.

Your Responsibilities:

• Design and develop animation features, in collaboration with the producers and software engineers
• Build and maintain complex animation trees using our proprietary Animation Toolkit.
• Contribute to designing animation components that can be shared across features and even across games.

Your Qualifications:

• Experienced CG character animator required
• Minimum 3 years of work experience
• Must possess excellent character animation skills
• Must have experience animating cameras, and a good eye for cinematics
• Must have a strong working knowledge of a 3D animation package (Maya, XSI etc.)
• Familiarity with Autodesk\'s Motionbuilder is preferred but not essential
• Candidate must have a strong work ethic and work well with a team
• Candidate must be meticulous, detail-oriented, driven, and need very little supervision to put out high-quality work

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Community / Marketing Title: Game Play Animator - EA SPORTS

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts is the leading interactive entertainment company, powered by innovative technology. We create incredible experiences for millions of players around the world. But what matters most is our people who inspire us, and the world, to play. As we bring new forms of entertainment to people around the world, we need creative, collaborative, diverse and adaptable people to keep making Electronic Arts better.

EEOText: About EA We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams\xe2\x80\x99 careers. We put our people first, and we make sure they\xe2\x80\x99re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn\xe2\x80\x99t end at the workplace\xe2\x80\x94we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we\xe2\x80\x99re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers\xe2\x80\x94people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren\xe2\x80\x99t just keeping up\xe2\x80\x94we\xe2\x80\x99re staying ahead of the game. Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Date Opened: 2022-10-14 23:54:30.23

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About EA

We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams\xe2\x80\x99 careers.

We put our people first, and we make sure they\xe2\x80\x99re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn\xe2\x80\x99t end at the workplace\xe2\x80\x94we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more.

Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we\xe2\x80\x99re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers\xe2\x80\x94people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren\xe2\x80\x99t just keeping up\xe2\x80\x94we\xe2\x80\x99re staying ahead of the game.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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