Animateur.trice sénior.e de la cinématique / Senior Cinematic Animator

Responsibilities

As a Senior Animator, your role will involve creating high-complexity and high-quality realistic character animations for in-game cinematics, ensuring they adhere to both the artistic vision and technical constraints.

You will collaborate closely with the directors and your Lead to achieve the desired storytelling and performance, bringing characters to life with expressive and realistic animation to benchmark quality.

Mentoring junior and mid animators is also a key part of your role, as you provide guidance and support to foster a collaborative and growth-focused environment.

Your technical proficiency with animation software such as Maya and Motion Builder, as well as game engines allows you to have a strong implementation knowledge and guides you to refine animations effectively.

Finally, you are adept at identifying and solving both technical and creative issues to maintain the highest quality of animations.

You will be expected to work closely with the narrative, audio, vfx and technical teams to ensure animations support storytelling and qualitative objectives.

Alongside the cinematic leadership team, you will contribute to planning out performance capture sessions, ensuring that assets are ready for shoot.

Expectations :

• While delivering on target for visual benchmarks, you will be an advocate for production deadlines and will manage your efforts to achieve task completion within them.
• You have strong communication skills and seek opportunities to mentor the team.
• Your problem-solving mind helps identify and solve technical and creative issues to maintain the highest quality of animations.
• You can work collaboratively in a team environment and take direction well.
• You will work closely with integrators to facilitate implementation of the animation content and test the result in the game.
• You will be collaborating and discussing artistic and technical challenges with colleagues as it offers cross discipline clarity and alignment.
• You will be seeking feedback and direction on your work while also providing feedback to others.
• You are an active contributor to the craft, promoting a collaborative learning culture within the team.
• You have excellent attention to detail and possess a creative mindset.

Qualifications :

• You have 10+ years of experience as a cinematic Animator for in-game content.
• Expert in animation software such as Maya, Motion Builder, or similar tools.
• Expert at performance capture polish and keyframe proficiency.
• Strong understanding of character animation, timing, and storytelling.
• Experience with motion capture data and techniques.
• You have worked on at least one AAA game where you were intimately involved in creating narrative content such as cinematics or scripted events.
• Having a good eye for camera language and framing is appreciated.
• You have a broad understanding of technical workflows.
• You show great collaboration and have experience in reaching out to the broader team for content alignment.
• You put passion into everything you do and aim to improve our workflows and tools.

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us.

We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life.

We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more.

Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.