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Sr. Cinematic Animator (107728)
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Orlando, FL, United States
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EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sports through industry-leading sports videogames, including Madden NFL football, FIFA Soccer, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE basketball, NCAA® Football, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® golf, SSX, and EA SPORTS UFC. For more information about EA SPORTS, including news, video, blogs, forums and game apps, please visit Company website.
Role Overview:
The Cinematic Animator must be able to create emotionally believable characters that allow game players to interact with the game, in a realistic and believable fashion. Cinematic Animators use these skills to bring a movie-like quality to the narrative of the games by creating emotionally impactful scenes. Responsibilities include:
• Develop and animate cut scenes that support the narrative of the game
• Animate the human form, giving the character weight, personality, mood, and believability
• Animate in realistic and stylized motion, on both human characters as well as objects, scenery, vegetation, and effects.
• Convey mood and emotion through facial animation
• Create effects and activities such as blending, tagging, state transitions, compression, and expression
• Define and estimate tasks in a well-organized manner
• Interact and collaborate with the different departments (Design, Art, Programming, Writing, etc.)
What Does EA Look for?
• A solid understanding of composition and camera language
• Strong understanding of classic animation principles such as staging, squash and stretch, timing, anticipation, follow through, exaggeration, and arcs
• Candidate must be able to quickly identify technical and visual issues and resolve them
• Strong proficiency in animation packages such as Maya
• Ability to learn and work with proprietary animation run-time integration tools
• Knowledgeable in the technical aspects of rigging and skinning characters for animation
• 5+ years of experience as a Cinematic Animator working on AAA game/film titles
• Classical Animation background, Degree in Fine Arts or Computer Animation.
EA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.