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Animator - for Pixel UnitedSummary
We're pioneers in our field and relentless in our pursuit of excellence. Aristocrat is an ideas company at heart, which means innovation is embedded into every aspect of our business. Whether we're designing sleek new cabinets, premium game content or award-winning systems, we apply fresh thinking and creativity to deliver the world's greatest gaming experience, every day. With cool new titles, such as Game of Thrones TM, Sons of Anarchy and Lightning Link along with our award-winning app Heart of Vegas, we're continually pushing the bar of creativity.Aristocrat’s New Media Games division develops market leading social casino games for a variety of mobile and web platforms with a team of extremely high caliber professionals from a wide range of backgrounds. As an Animator, you will sit in our local studio as part of our growing New Media Games division based in Las Vegas. Working with a creative team you will be responsible for helping develop the look and feel of games throughout various stages of development. Collaborating with Illustrators to envision unique styles across different games and then articulating those designs while working alongside technical artists. This is a hands-on position where you will develop and implement high quality, class leading content for social and mobile casino gaming.
What You'll Do
- Assist in art direction in a collaborative environment with design and engineering.
- Find creative, artistic solutions to unique problems revolving around mobile app development.
- Creative collaboration – Evaluate and contribute to the ongoing development of the production pipeline.
- Animate 2D and 3D game assets using software compatible with Unity development.
- Excel within a team-based environment with fast-paced development cycles.
- Develop high quality content for mobile gaming apps coming to market.
- Maintain excellent file organization and follow established processes for asset creation & management.
What We're Looking For
- 2-5 years in professional artistic role, utilizing 2D/3D production art and animation skills.
- Experience in a production environment working directly with development teams.
- Contributed to the development of several commercial titles for the digital/mobile environments (mobile, web, etc.)
- Adaptability and a passion for creative problem solving.
- Strong organization skills.
- Interpret and communicate artistic visions through storyboards & animatics.
- Must Have experience with - Unity and Adobe CC Suite with an emphasis on Photoshop, and After Effects.
- Esoteric Spine experience preferred.
- 3D modelling and animation software experience a plus.
- Seek feedback and review of work; accept and act upon creative/technical direction.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Animation or related field preferred.
Why Product Madness?
You will be joining a global powerhouse where you will be part of a world-class talented team that creates remarkable hit games such as Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino, Mighty Fu, and Big Fish Casino. The success of these titles has led to over 400 million downloads and more than 50 million active users. But there is no stopping us there, we also have a new games team that is working on bringing new hit games to the market. Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital games division of Pixel United.
Outstanding growth has seen us build Product Madness to more than 800 team members and counting, you can join one of our seven global talent hubs including London, USA, Canada, Spain, Poland, Ukraine & Israel.
You will be part of a company that is not only Mad about games but Mad about our people. Living by our value of people first, you will feel this firsthand from the moment you step into one of our fantastic studios. This is made possible by our amazing studio experience team who help make Product Madness such a fun place to work. Be it arranging endless snacks, weekly breakfasts & lunches, lavish Christmas & summer parties, happy hour drinks, social get-togethers and so much more.
So what is stopping you from coming and joining the Madness?
