Senior 2D Animator

In this role, you can expect to be involved in:

• Character Animation Design and Creation:
• Oversee the design and creation of character animations, including character movements, facial expressions, and cinematic sequences.


• Artistic Vision Alignment:
• Ensure that animations align with the game's artistic vision and style, enhancing the player's immersion and engagement.


• Storytelling through Animation:
• Champion the use of animation as a powerful storytelling tool, helping to convey character personalities, emotions, and narrative elements.


• Collaboration and Communication:
• Collaborate with writers, directors, and designers to ensure that animation serves the game's storytelling objectives.


• Best Practices Development:
• Work with the Art Director and Art team to design, implement, and communicate best practices to the entire art production team.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma (or equivalent) in a related field (3D animation, traditional animation, film, tv production, computer graphics, etc.)
• 8+ years working in mobile or console game development. 
• Experience developing automated animation systems, developing tools and pipelines.
• Advanced experience with animations, schematics, rigging and setups.
• Problem solves all technical issues involving animation.
• Experience with Motionbuilder and Maya animation tools
• Experience with Unity is a plus.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion. 
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!