Contract
**This would be an onsite role - 3 days in the office - LOCATED IN ORLANDO, FL**
EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.
Your Responsibilities:
- Work with Senior animators to clean up motion capture to the requirements 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.
- Participate in animation reviews.
- You will estimate and scope your work each sprint/milestone with guidance from senior animators.
- Learn how to implement animation into the engine and how to test it in game.
- Learn how to debug issues in the game engine.
Your Qualifications:
- Have experience animating with Maya or Motion Builder.
- Have worked with motion capture.
- Strong desire to learn and ability to pick up new/proprietary software.
- Good communication and organizational skills.
- Takes direction and feedback well.
Beneficial Qualifications
- Love of sports, especially football.
- Love of games, all kinds.
- Experience with writing or editing code.
- Experience with zoom/slack/jira
- Knowledge of state machines and motion matching.
- Knowledge of Cinematography