About this role
Gaming:
Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.
Position Summary
Experience: 2 to 6 Years
Essential Job Functions:
- Create high-caliber Animation, maintaining excellent motion graphics quality in regard to timing, color theory, layout, text treatment, and animation ability.
- Continually sharpen artistic and software expertise through company training, independent learning, and learning from other team members.
- Produce top-notch animations through an iterative process in close collaboration with Senior and Lead Animators.
- Always display a high degree of professionalism, accepting critique from team members.
- Show efficiency in self-managing time with a reasonable degree of accountability and minimal instruction
- Demonstrate excellent file structure and organization.
- Create art assets and document all art assets created with minimal mistakes.
- Review game art files prior to archival.
Qualifications
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Preferred Education: Bachelor of Arts in art/animation
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Preferred Experience: 2+ years previous experience Animator in a production environment Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
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Proficient in 2D Animation, After Effects, Unity, Photoshop.
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Critical thinking skills are an absolute must in this fast-paced, high-output team
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Understand how to animate art for various themes and platforms
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Excellent motion graphics abilities using various industry standards plugins like Trap code Suite, Boris Saphire, Saber and Element 3D.
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Expert with Adobe photoshop, Illustrator design is a must.
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Should have technical knowledge of adjusting art file resolutions and modifying After Effects compositions to fit different templates.
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Must follow good file management practices.
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Should be able to export files in various formats using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Should have strong typography skills.
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Exposure to Spine 2d tool for sprite rigging and animation.
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Knowledge of using Blender, 3ds max or Maya is a must.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills