Blizzard Entertainment: Creature Animator - Unannounced Survival Game (Contractor)

Animator is needed in Irvine, United States.

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a Creature Animator - Unannounced Survival Game. This job has been crawled from the web.

Location: Irvine, CA

Contract: Contractor

Your Mission

As a Creature Animator, you’ll be animating a diverse range of compelling, alluring, and epic creatures that support unique and dynamic gameplay. You’ll be working with other artists, designers, and engineers to collaborate on creatively complex assignments to develop an inspiring creative vision for this new Blizzard experience.

We believe our team is good. Really good. Granted, we’re obviously biased. But we also believe there are lots of developers out there who can make us even better. You could be one of those people. If you’re looking for a team where inclusion, thoughtfulness, empathy, professionalism, and collaboration are all seen as critically important, we believe our team could be a phenomenal fit for you. Join us and help craft our future!

You can learn a bit more about this upcoming Unannounced Survival Game in our news release here!

You’re good at:

• Collaborating with AI engineers and designers to create interesting, challenging and believable creature behavior.
• Working with animation blend trees and have previous experience with node-based animation editors in a commercial or proprietary game engine.
• Partnering with the animation team to help develop a unique animation style and visual direction for the project.
• Partner with engineers and tech artists to help support and develop an effective animation pipeline for prototyping and a rapid iteration mindset for game development.

Extra awesome points for:

• 5+ years of experience working on AAA games for major platforms.
• Experience with prototype/quick iteration environments.
• A good understanding of Autodesk Maya.
• Experience with advanced animation systems like motion matching.
• Mentoring other animators.

You’ll need to provide us with:

• Your Resume
• Your Portfolio or Reel – Only digital applications will be accepted such as a website, blog, or online album. Physical media will not be accepted.
• An animation test might be required