ANIMATOR

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Your day to day tasks will include:

• Delivery of high quality in-game animations in a timely manner

• Coordination with technical artist to work with character rigs and FX

• Coordinate with designers to facilitate gameplay and programmers for implementation of tools and for scripting animations into game engine

• Create keyframed gameplay animations

• Take animation from initial concept through to implementation in Unity

• Developing games that you yourself would want to play!

Technical Requirements:

• Proficient in a 3D packages including: Maya, Blender or 3d Studio Max

• Experienced in creating high poly models in Zbrush

• Proficient in texturing packages such as Substance Painter

• Traditional 3D texturing techniques with Photoshop

• Proficient in Unity and/or Unreal 4+

Other Skills:

• Proficient understand of timing, posing and acting

• Strong foundation in the principles of animation

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to manage and switch between different projects and adapt to different animation styles.

Emerald City Games is unique, even by industry standards. It’s a great culture, that has you inspired every day. You need to be able to check off the following:

• Be really good at what you do. We have a high standard. We like to give our devs a lot of responsibility and ownership.

• Work hard. We want people to roll up their sleeves when they need to, while supporting and encouraging others!

• Get along well with others. At ECG we see everyone as family. We pride ourselves on creating an environment that is supportive and offers equal opportunity for everyone!

We are 100% independent. We create our own worlds, we choose to work on the games we want to make, and you will not find a more talented, inspiring, down-to-earth group to join. Drop us a line if you’re interested in being a part of it.

Check out this video to get a sense of what the culture is like here.

Oh, and don’t think you need to be in Canada to apply. Our company has a long history of obtaining work visas. We want to work with the best, and we don’t let borders stop us.