Senior Game Animator
Light & Wonder · Chennai
Gaming:
Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.
Position Summary
Essential Job Functions
- Create animation that tells a story with meaning through movement.
- Work closely with the Game Designer, art team, and software engineering team to
- conceptualize, storyboard, prototype, create, and revise high quality final game
- animations in a timely and efficient manner.
- Provide creative solutions to artistic and technical problems.
- Support engineering development by updating and modifying artwork to meet technical
requirements.
- Create and animate unique emotive characters and immersive worlds.
- Communicate game direction through storyboards and animatics.
- All other duties as assigned.
Additional Job Description
Qualifications, Training and/or Experience
- Degree or certificate in 3D, or related field, or equivalent production animation
- experience.
- Proficient in Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator
- Basic working understanding of 3D modeling and animation using software like Blender
and Cinema 4d.
- Unity & Spin2D software experience is a plus.
- Strong design and composition ability.
- A Senior animator with 7 to 10 years of experience in the production environment.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Knowledge of storyboarding and video production including but not limited to- particles
generation, compositing, motion graphics and character animation.
- Strong understanding of animation principles.
- Thorough understanding of physical motion, weight, balance, texture, and form.
- Organized and thorough, with the ability to work quickly.
- Interact and collaborate with immediate team, senior level professionals.
- Must be open to direction and able to embrace change.
- Proficient in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator
- Familiarity with 3D modeling, rigging, animation a plus.
- Familiarity in compositing and rotoscoping a plus.
- Familiarity with Unity a plus.
Education
• Bachelor’s degree in related field
Qualifications