Animator

Valve corporation; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in gaming seeks an exceptional Animator to join their innovative team. You will be responsible for conceptualizing ideas and creating animated content, contributing to exciting gameplay experiences and cinematic moments. Ideal candidates will demonstrate collaboration skills and have a wealth of experience in 3D animation tools like Maya.

Qualifications

• Experience with 3D computer-generated character animation.
• Strong storytelling and performance skills in animation.
• Prior experience in shipping products in software, film, or gaming.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with peers to determine work priorities.
• Contribute creative animation solutions throughout production.
• Work closely with engineers to improve workflow and tools.

Skills

Collaboration

Problem solving

Animation skills

Storytelling

Education

Professional experience in animation or related field

Tools

Maya

Motion capture

Rigging

Scripting

Modeling

Texturing

Lighting

Video editing

Job description

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At Valve we look beyond hiring for a set position, but instead, we seek exceptional people with broad skill sets who also exhibit deep expertise in their chosen craft. The animators at Valve are a world-class group of artists working with writers, software engineers, and designers who are continually creating and releasing compelling entertainment experiences to players around the world.

Animators determine work priorities in collaboration with their peers, contributing creative solutions throughout production in a variety of ways. From conceptualizing ideas to producing an extensive range of animated content including dynamic interactive performances and large-scale cinematic moments, whose work is crucial in helping shape ideas. Within each team, they are part of prototyping gameplay experiences with designers and programmers for a diverse array of characters, creatures, and in-game encounters. They also work closely with software engineers to improve our proprietary tools, maximize efficiency of our workflow, and to ensure the animation that we create is exceptional.

At Valve our animators are highly experienced and can demonstrate a number of skills, most importantly:

They collaborate with other employees and solve hard problems that make products better.

Each of them has examples - that they can share - showing that they have done something particularly exciting that makes their work special.

What work or experiences can YOU share that are novel and inspiring? Our animators’ work often utilizes:

• Product-level thinking that informs intentional, meaningful decisions from concept to completion.
• An outstanding ability to portray believable physical movement, strong acting, storytelling and performance of 3D computer-generated characters.
• A detailed understanding of Maya; experience working with motion capture and building animation state machines.
• Knowledge of rigging, scripting, modeling, texturing, lighting, and video editing.
• Prior professional experiences shipping world-class products in the software, television or film industry.
  
  

Interested? Send us your reel, resume, and examples of interesting problems you’ve solved. Sorry, we do not accept student reels.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer Games

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