Senior Cinematic Animator

Description

The BioWare Label is a division of EA which crafts high quality multiplatform role-playing, MMO and strategy games, focused on emotionally engaging, rich stories with unforgettable characters and vast worlds to discover. Since 1995, BioWare has created some of the world's most critically acclaimed titles and franchises, including Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass Effect and Dragon Age. BioWare currently operates in eight locations across the world, including Edmonton (Alberta, Canada), Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and Austin (Texas).

BioWare’s games have continually achieved critical and commercial success. All of our published titles are highly rated at www.gamerankings.com; in fact we have 6 games in the top 1% highest rated games of all time! Today BioWare has over 800 staff at its locations and continues to grow. In 2008, BioWare was acquired by Electronic Arts, a leading global interactive entertainment publisher. In 2011 EA created the BioWare Label, alongside EA Games, EA SPORTS and EA Play. For more information on BioWare, visit www.bioware.com, or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bioware. To join the millions of fans already registered with the BioWare community, go to http://social.bioware.com.

Position Overview

Senior Cinematic Animator

Animators must be able to create emotionally believable characters that allow game players to interact with the game, whether photorealistic or stylized, in a realistic and believable fashion. Cinematic Animators use these skills to bring a movie-like quality to the narrative of the games by creating emotionally impactful cut scenes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and animate cut scenes that support the narrative of the games
• Animate the human form, giving the character weight, personality, mood, and believability
• Animate in realistic and stylized motion, on both human and creature models
• Convey mood and emotion through facial animation
• Define and estimate tasks in a well-organized manner
• Interact and collaborate with the different departments (Design, Art, Programming, Writing, etc.)

Required Technical Skills and Experience

• A solid understanding of composition and camera language
• Strong understanding of classic animation principles such as staging, squash and stretch, timing, anticipation, follow through, exaggeration, arcs, etc
• Candidate must be able to quickly identify technical and visual issues and resolve them
• Strong proficiency in animation packages including Maya
• Ability to learn and work with proprietary animation run-time integration tools
• 5+ years of experience as a Cinematic Animator working on AAA game/film titles
• Classical Animation background, Degree in Fine Arts or Computer Animation

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