Electronic Arts

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games. 

You will have the opportunity to contribute to the creative process of crafting immersive gaming experiences, through creating high-quality appealing performances for characters and implementing your work in engine. 

Role Expectations: 

• Clean up motion capture data, with an emphasis on stylization, needed for a specific area or feature of the game. 
• Collaborate with designers and engineers to ensure that your animations meet all needs of the feature. 
• Work with the Animation Director and Leads to deliver quality animation that meets expectations. 
• Implement animation into the engine, test and debug issues. 

Your Qualifications: 

• Production experience animating in Maya and Motion Builder. 
• Experience both motion capture and hand keying animations. 
• Comfortable with editing motion capture data's posing, staging and timing in order to produce stylized athletic performances. 
• Minimum of 3 years professional animation experience. 
• Strong desire to learn new workflows and software. 
• Aspirations to take ownership of a specific area of the game or feature. 
• Good communication and organizational skills. 

Beneficial Qualifications 

• Love of sports and games, all kinds. 
• Experience working on diverse animation styles. 
• Frostbite Experience 
• Experience with Slack/Jira/Shotgrid 
• Knowledge of state machines, motion matching, or cinematography