Senior 3D Animator/Artist

Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

Light & Wonder is looking for an experienced game artist who enjoys creating expressive characters, building rich worlds, and telling evocative and emotive stories. Your companions on this journey are a group of intrepid and experienced slot game designers and developers who have been responsible for some of the most daring, original, and successful slot gaming products developed in the last decade.

Are you eternally curious? Are you an explorer? Are you someone who wants other people to feel your art and not just see your art? If the answer to all these questions is yes, then your place should be with us.

• Develop character and prop animations using traditional, 3D, and motion design techniques for Electronic Gaming Machine products.
• Where necessary, assist in supervising animation work within the team to ensure the artistic integrity and quality of assets.
• Assist the Art Team Leader in providing mentorship and training in new tools and techniques to the team.
• In accordance with creative briefs, develop initial animation concepts and continue these through to final designs.
• Contributes to a range of deliverables within the EGM studio team.
• Liaise with software engineers and game designers.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Education:

• Tertiary qualifications in appropriate art related field are preferred, but not essential.
  
  
  

Experience:

• 5+ yrs. experience working in an animation capacity, preferably within a game development studio
• Extensive training/experience in the use of digital art and animation software, including After Effects, Blender, Maya, or similar.
• Necessary knowledge includes all tasks related to both traditional and 3D animation, including character animation, modelling, rigging, lighting, and texturing, as well as particle systems and motion graphics development.
• Employment will also require sound traditional art skills.
  
  
  

Skills and Abilities:

• A critical eye for detail and ability to follow/maintain stringent guidelines.
• Experience working in a fast paced production environment.
• Gaming industry/related experience preferred.
• This role is on-site 5 days a week**
  
  
  

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Light & Wonder, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “L&W”) are engaged in the highly regulated gaming business. As a result, L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, and/or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. To ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements necessary to fulfill their individual roles.  As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting due diligence and a background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.