sénior.e de la cinématique

Locations: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Location: Montreal
• Country: Canada

Role ID

211702

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

EA Studios - Motive Montreal

Work Model

Hybrid

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of 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.

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Our motive is to develop innovative action games set in iconic worlds where every player feels like the hero. Let's say that again—iconic worlds where every player feels like the hero. Our passion has taken us from imagining dogfighter pilots in Star Wars: Squadrons to re-creating Isaac Clarke onboard the Ishimura in Dead Space.

Currently, we're working on two exciting projects, an original Iron Man action-adventure game and what's coming next for Battlefield.

We believe in sharing our passion with our community and each other, fostering an inclusive culture, and nurturing a growth mindset.

Although our approach may seem simple, it leads us to create the best work of our careers, bringing unique and immersive experiences to our players.

Motive is looking for its next Senior Cinematic Animator to join us to enhance visual storytelling for Battlefield. You will report to the Lead Animator and work on performance/motion capture and keyframe animations for Cinematic content. You will also have a key role in bringing our in-game narrative stories to life by working closely with the Directors, Lead, animators and cross-disciplinary departments to create high-quality cinematic sequences that will have a high impact on the player's experience.

As a Senior Cinematic Animator, your role will involve creating striking pre-visualization scenes and high-complexity and high-quality realistic character, vehicle and camera animations for cinematics, ensuring they adhere to both the artistic vision and technical constraints. You will collaborate closely with the directors and your Lead to achieve the desired storytelling and performance, bringing characters to life with expressive and realistic animation to benchmark quality.

Mentoring junior and mid animators is also a key part of your role, as you provide guidance and support to foster a collaborative and growth-focused environment. Your technical proficiency with animation software such as Maya and Motion Builder, as well as game engines allows you to have a strong implementation knowledge and guides you to refine animations effectively. Finally, you are adept at identifying and solving both technical and creative issues to maintain the highest quality of animations.

You will be expected to work closely with the narrative, audio, VFX and technical teams to ensure animations support storytelling and qualitative objectives. Alongside the cinematic leadership team, you will contribute to planning out performance capture sessions, ensuring that assets are ready for shoot.

Responsibilities:

• While delivering on target for visual benchmarks, you will be an advocate for production deadlines and will manage your efforts to achieve task completion within them.
• You have strong communication skills and seek opportunities to mentor the team.
• Your problem-solving mind helps identify and solve technical and creative issues to maintain the highest quality of animations.
• You can work collaboratively in a team environment and take direction well.
• You will work closely with integrators to facilitate implementation of the animation content and test the result in the game.
• You will be collaborating and discussing artistic and technical challenges with colleagues as it offers cross-discipline clarity and alignment.
• You will be seeking feedback and direction on your work while also providing feedback to others.
• You are an active contributor to the craft, promoting a collaborative learning culture within the team.

Qualifications:

• You have 8+ years of experience as a cinematic Animator for in-game content.
• Expert in animation software such as Motion Builder, Maya or similar tools.
• Expert at performance capture polish and keyframe proficiency.
• Strong understanding of character animation, timing, and storytelling.
• You have worked on at least one AAA game where you were intimately involved in creating narrative content such as cinematics or scripted events.
• Having a good eye for camera language and framing is appreciated.
• You show great collaboration and have experience in reaching out to the broader team for content alignment.
• Being a fan of war games like Battlefield and having military knowledge is a plus.

About Electronic Arts

We're proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.