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Website:
aristocrat.com
Job details:
What You'll Do:-
As an Associate Principal Animator at Aristocrat, you will play a pivotal role in crafting world-class gaming experiences. Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Contributing innovative gaming animations throughout the production cycle.
- Ensuring consistency and quality of animation/build work across project teams.
- Comprehending and quickly acting on Art briefs, conceptualizing and producing creative animations and artwork.
- Serving as a seeding resource for a creative animation team, which will initially handle tasks in India and later be part of a distributed team.
- Responding promptly to remote direction and making requested changes in a timely manner.
- Communicating complex art and animation-related issues clearly to local and remote team members.
- Adding customer value to all aspects of the creative production pipeline from concept through post-production.
- Providing high-quality digital artwork and animation for innovative gaming products, as directed by the Chief Concept Creator and Art Director.
- Conceptualizing new art and animation products in accordance with art briefs.
- Developing astonishing products and contributing to co-workers’ skill development.
- Continuously seeking and implementing improvements.
What We're Looking For:-
We are seeking an exceptionally skilled animator with a proven track record. The ideal candidate will have:
- A minimum of 10+ years of computer experience using related programs.
- At least 6+ years of experience in a commercial art/animation environment.
- Experience leading a team of artists and animators is an added advantage.
- A formal qualification in Graphic Build or Animation.
- Expertise as a Senior 3D Animator/Generalist in a Slot Machine Build Studio.
- Proficiency with Adobe After Effects for compositing, applying FX, and rendering animation outputs.
- Advanced skills in Blender for modeling, texturing, rigging, lighting, and animation.
- Ability to build and maintain efficient rigs for characters, symbols, and mechanical assets.
- Experience modeling and texturing characters, environments, and game elements with attention to visual style and performance constraints.
- Skill in crafting and setting up lighting to improve clarity, mood, and visual impact in a real-time or game-focused pipeline.
- Ability to work alongside designers and engineers to incorporate animated assets and visual effects into the game pipeline.
- Capability to iterate on work based on creative direction, technical feedback, and gameplay needs.
- Consistency in maintaining established art direction while contributing creative polish.
- Background in crafting game-ready assets for real-time or interactive applications.
- Familiarity with slot game development or implementation.
- Skilled in using Trapcode plugins for motion graphics and visual effects.
- Working knowledge of Unity, including importing, setting up, and previewing animated assets.
Aristocrat offers a robust benefits package and global career opportunities. Join us in delivering outstanding gaming experiences and pushing the bar of creativity!
Why Aristocrat?
Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games. We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games. And while we focus on fun, we never forget our responsibilities. We strive to lead the way in responsible gameplay, and to lift the bar in company governance, employee wellbeing and sustainability. We’re a diverse business united by shared values and an inspiring mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.
We aim to create an environment where individual differences are valued, and all employees have the opportunity to realize their potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all people regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, cultural background, disability status or LGBTQ+ identity. EEO M/F/D/V
- World Leader in Gaming Entertainment
- Robust benefits package
- Global career opportunities
Our Values
- All about the Player
- Talent Unleashed
- Collective Brilliance
- Good Business Good Citizen
Travel Expectations
None
Additional Information
At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.
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