Are you ready to join the Overwatch team and make an impact? We're seeking a skilled Senior Animator for Overwatch 2, a full-time role based in Irvine, CA.
Your mission: bring characters to life with your animation skills, collaborate with designers and engineers, and innovate our animation pipeline. Showcase your talent with a demo reel, and let's create something extraordinary together.
Responsibilities:
Envision and craft animations for real-time game assets, including hero style guides and prototypes for earlier visualization.
Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to ensure assets meet gameplay and technical needs.
Work with the lead animator and other team members to evolve our tools and pipeline.
Actively participate in team art discussions, critiques, and reviews as part of the larger Overwatch team.
Requirements:
Candidates should have over 8 years of experience in game development, explicitly animating characters using Maya or a comparable 3D program.
Demonstrate a solid understanding of traditional animation principles and their application to gameplay enhancement.
A strong interest in animation and effective communication skills are necessary to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary art team, bringing characters to life in alignment with the game design vision.
Submit a demo reel showcasing proficiency in animating the human bipedal figure and other organic forms.
