Animator - Games

2 Weeks ago • All levels • Animation

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Animator at Embark Studios, you'll bring characters, creatures, and objects to life, crafting a dynamic and engaging game world. Responsibilities include creating high-quality animations, evaluating software and pipelines, ensuring seamless integration of animations into the game, and collaborating with artists and designers. You'll participate in playtests and provide feedback. The ideal candidate possesses relevant animation experience, a passion for games and animation technologies, excellent visual skills, and the ability to work within game and animation direction and technical constraints. Strong communication and collaboration skills are essential.
Must have:
  • Relevant animation experience
  • Passion for animation & games
  • Excellent visual skills
  • Ability to follow direction & deliver quality
  • Game engine knowledge (stateflow, visual scripting)
  • Good communication & collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Scripting language knowledge (Python, C#)
Perks:
  • Competitive salaries
  • Generous profit-sharing program

Job Details

Creating experiences is magical… but everyone should be able to do it! We are trying to realize this dream by creating games, communities, and building empowering technologies. If you are passionate about our mission, bring your expertise, enthusiasm and ridiculous ideas. Everyone at Embark contributes as game makers and culture creators. Your willingness to fail and learn with us, and enjoy it, is essential to our success.

Overview
As an Animator at Embark your job is to breathe life into the characters, creatures and objects to create a living and dynamic game experience. You use your magnificent skills to make the world come alive and play a critical role enhancing the emotional experience and the gameplay elements of the game.

Examples of responsibilities

  • Create high quality animations for a wide range of characters, creatures and props
  • Evaluating different softwares, techniques, engines and pipelines
  • Be responsible for not just the animations but the whole chain needed to experience it in the game
  • Work closely with character artists, technical artists, animators and designers to build a fun and amazing looking game
  • Participate in playtests and provide feedback on the game

We would love if you have

  • Relevant professional animation experience
  • A strong passion for animation, games and relevant technologies
  • Excellent visual skillset and deep artistic understanding and knowledge
  • Ability to follow directions and deliver to quality from a visual, game play and technical perspective
  • Great understanding and ability to work according Game and Animation direction as well as technical constraints
  • Great communication and collaboration skills
  • Modern game engine knowledge, stateflow, visual scripting etc.
  • Scripting language knowledge such as python and C#

This is an on-site role, and we are only considering candidates already residing in Sweden.

At Embark we offer competitive salaries, a generous profit-sharing program, and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

We welcome people from all backgrounds and are looking forward to reading more about you (in English)!

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About The Company

Embark Studios was founded in November 2018 by a group of Swedish game industry veterans. Today Embark Studios has more than 300 game-makers applying breakthrough technologies to reimagine how games are made and what they can become. In 2023 Embark released THE FINALS®, our first game, We have another two experiences in production — the PvPVe survival action shooter ARC Raiders® and the creative platform wim®.

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