Gameplay Animator

7 days ago

Vancouver, Canada IGG.com Canada Full time

IGG Canada is a premium mobile game studio located at 5 East 8th Ave. Vancouver, Canada. With spectacular views of the downtown skyline, coastal mountains and English Bay, our new studio is spacious, high-tech, and inspiring.

IGG Canada is a division of IGG - I Got Games, a global interactive digital entertainment company that specializes in the development of and operation of Mobile Games. Established in 2006, IGG was founded with the aim of becoming a leading massively multiplayer game publisher and developer. The company has rapidly expanded its global operations, through strategic partnerships with popular gaming platforms such as Facebook, iOS, Amazon, Google Play, Kongregate and many others. IGG currently operates studios in China, Philippines, Singapore, the U.S. and Canada which opened its doors in 2014.

If you're passionate about creating mobile games that reach millions of players around the world and are interested in becoming an integral member of our Canadian team of superheroes, we want to hear from you

The gameplay animator we are looking for needs to create game animation for our mobile game.

**Responsibilities**
- Create high-quality body animation art assets for use in-game
- Create expressive keyframe character animation that portrays multiple emotions in a variety of aesthetic acting styles.
- Use both Maya and in-house experimental tools to implement animated characters and objects.
- Use proprietary animation pipelines and workflow
- Make sure all work is clean and organized with regard to assets within each file and file structure and storage.
- Collaborate with peers and supervisors on innovative approaches to tackle assignments.

**Requirements**:

- 5 years of experience with animation in television, film or 3 years of games industry experience
- Experience with using Maya, 3dMax, or similar 3D animation software
- Experience with layout and camera animations.
- Basic rigging skills and experience.
- Independently find and communicate creative solutions to problems.
- Strong work ethic and positive attitude.
- Understanding of human movement, and detailed knowledge of functional human anatomy
- Ability to take direction and actively seek clarification from the supervisor.

**Bonus**
- Experience with Unity engine
- Shipped at least one game in the role of gameplay animator

**Compensation Package for permanent employees**:

- Comprehensive benefits after 3 months including extended health and dental.
- Paid Vacation + paid Sick days: 18 days(accumulated and based on percentage earnings).
- Active Living Benefits (such as Fitness Memberships, Registration fees for team sports reimbursement) after 3 months.
- Training and development fee reimbursement after 3 months
- Dependent Child Benefit/Child Gift
- Paid Holiday Closure
- RRSP matching after 1 year

**Perks for our employees**:

- On-site car and Bike Parking
- Monthly Transit Allowance after 3 months
- Work hours: 10 am to 6 pm with 1 hour paid lunch.
- Dress code: Casual
- Lots of snacks available
- Monthly Team lunch
- Referral Bonus

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