Senior Animator

Embark Studios; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 550,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Embark Studios in Sweden is seeking a Senior Animator to breathe life into characters, creatures and props, creating a dynamic game experience. You will collaborate with artists and designers to deliver high-quality animations and contribute to gameplay systems and menus.

You will evaluate tools and pipelines, follow creative directions, and participate in playtests to refine animation within the game. This on-site role requires passion for animation, games, and modern engine workflows.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional animation experience.
• 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#

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.
• Opportunity to delve into gameplay animation as well as presentation areas such as menus, cinematics and trailers

Skills

Animation experience

Passion for games

Communication skills

Game direction understanding

Python

C#

StateFlow

Visual scripting

Tools

Python

C#

StateFlow

Visual scripting

Job description

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 a Senior 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

• Opportunity to delve into gameplay animation as well as presentation areas such as menus, cinematics and trailers

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, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with 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. Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so.