Senior Cinematic Artist – Animator

Craft Cinematics Team (Marketing)

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. A community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

The Marketing Cinematics (Craft Cinematics) team is responsible for creating high-impact, real-time trailers across multiple EA IPs. We operate at the edge of what game engines can visually achieve - pushing Frostbite and Unreal beyond typical gameplay constraints to deliver visually stunning marketing content seen by millions of players worldwide.

We are looking for a Senior Cinematic Artist – Animator who is passionate about storytelling, performance, and camera language. This is a hands-on production role focused on animation excellence, creative collaboration, and delivering emotionally compelling, real-time cinematic experiences.

This is a hybrid role.

Your Responsibilities:

• Create high-quality, performance-driven character and camera animation in Maya and Motionbuilder for real-time marketing cinematics

• Translate creative direction into compelling shots with strong cinematic timing and camera language

• Polish motion capture data to achieve believable weight, physicality, and emotional nuance

• Block and design shots in-engine for previs and layout. 

• Refine performances in Maya and Motionbuilder to final quality

• Integrate animation into Frostbite (and occasionally Unreal) while maintaining camera framing and skeletal integrity

• Collaborate closely with lighting, editorial, and creative direction to ensure cohesive storytelling Iiterate quickly in response to evolving edits and layered stakeholder feedback

• Contribute to performance capture and virtual production workflows when applicable

• Manage and track work through production tools (e.g., ShotGrid/Flow) in a fast-paced marketing environment
  
  

Your Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in character or cinematic animation

• Strong sense of cinematic timing, camera language, and storytelling through performance

• Advanced proficiency in Maya 

• Experience polishing motion capture data

• Experience working with real-time engines (Frostbite, Unreal, or similar)

• Strong communication and collaboration skills across disciplines

• Ability to work effectively in an iterative, deadline-driven production environment
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience creating or contributing to AAA marketing trailers or high-visibility media

• Experience with facial animation and conveying emotion through subtle performance

• Comfort working with Perforce or similar version control systems

• Previs and layout experience in-engine

• Exposure to virtual production tools (virtual cameras, markerless capture, Xsens, etc.)

• Experience with scripting (Python) or workflow automation