Senior Advanced Animator

Gaming: Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. Light & Wonder’s gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe. Position Summary Light & Wonder is looking for an experienced game animator who enjoys creating expressive characters, building rich worlds, and telling evocative and emotive stories. Your companions on this journey are a group of intrepid and experienced slot game designers and developers who have been responsible for some of the most daring, original, and successful slot gaming products developed in the last decade. Are you eternally curious? Are you an explorer? Are you someone who wants other people to feel your art and not just see your art? If the answer to all these questions is yes, then your place should be with us. Primary Responsibilities: Develop character and prop animations using traditional, 3D, and motion design techniques for Electronic Gaming Machine products. Where necessary, assist in supervising animation work within the team to ensure the artistic integrity and quality of assets. Assist the Animation Team Leader in providing mentorship and training in new tools and techniques to the team. In accordance with creative briefs, develop initial animation concepts and continue these through to final designs. Contributes to a range of deliverables within the EGM studio team. Liaise with software engineers and game designers. Qualifications Education: Tertiary qualifications in appropriate art related field are preferred, but not essential. Experience: 5 yrs. experience working in an animation capacity, preferably within a game development studio Extensive training/experience in the use of digital art and animation software, including After Effects, Blender, Maya, or similar. Necessary knowledge includes all tasks related to both traditional and 3D animation, including character animation, modelling, rigging, lighting, and texturing, as well as particle systems and motion graphics development. Experience with Unity a plus. Employment will also require sound traditional art skills. Skills and Abilities: A critical eye for detail and ability to follow/maintain stringent guidelines. Experience working in a fast paced production environment. Gaming industry/related experience preferred. Work Conditions Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, “L&W”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you. This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above. Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster. Light & Wonder is the leading cross-platform global game company singularly focused on creating games that players love to play wherever they love to play them, be that land-based casino, online or on mobile. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada with 5,000 employees across six continents, we create content, hardware and systems that connect iconic titles across any place or channel. By turning games into expansive entertainment, Light & Wonder keeps thrilling players with characters and stories they can’t get enough of. To review our applicant data use practices, please visit https://explore.lnw.com/careers/data-privacy/