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BioWare Austin seeks Animator

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BioWare Austin is seeking candidates for the position of Animator to help deliver a high quality game to market. The Animator is an individual contributor on the art team. This position creates complex 3D models and textures under the direction of the Principal Lead Animator.

BioWare, the newest member of the incredible family of EA studios, has created some of the world's best-selling titles including the award-winning Baldur's Gate™, Neverwinter Nights™ series, and Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™. Original BioWare-created IPs include Jade Empire™ and the critically acclaimed, Mass Effect. BioWare is hard at work on the epic fantasy RPG Dragon Age™; Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood™ for the Nintendo DS™; and unannounced projects including a highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game.

BioWare’s games have continually achieved critical and commercial success. All of our published titles are in the top 5% highest rated at www.gamerankings.com; in fact we have 6 games in the top 1% highest rated games of all time! Today BioWare has more than 400 staff at its two locations and continues to grow. We have sold over 20 million games (including engine licenses) in the past ten years! Our games have received many top industry awards, and we are proud that our Edmonton studio location has been recognized as a top employer in Canada, awarded the following for 2008:

  • Canada’s Top 100 Employers
  • Financial Post Canada’s Top 10 Best Companies to Work For
  • Alberta’s Top 35 Employers

Responsibilities

  • Creates character animation (keyframe animation and/or motion-capture based animation) to create the best character animation.
  • Develop smooth, realistic and dramatic animation assets (Work with character rigs to develop animation assets for facial, hand, and other detailed movements to create lifelike human characters.
  • Collaborate with Principal Lead Animator and Senior Animators in implementation of animations within game engine.
  • Assisting the Principal Lead Animator in the evaluation of tools and processes.
  • Works with designers, programmers and other personnel involved in the development of products.
  • As directed, interacts with peers or managers in other units/teams/projects and/or vendors.
Minimum education: University degree or vocational training in Animation

Experience and Qualifications

  • Up to 2 years of professional animation experience
  • Demonstrated ability to create fluid, smooth, realistic animations with specific demonstration of animation fundamentals.
  • Previous work experience will have included creating realistic human, animal and/or creature animations.
  • Self-starter with the ability to contribute to a team environment.
  • Strong passion for creating immersive, high quality videogames.
  • Capable of working both as a member of a team, and individually with minimum supervision.
  • Character modeling skills and / or cinematic experience a plus
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office preferred.
  • Preference towards applicants that exhibit:
    • Previous experience working on MMOs
    • Technically savvy with strong problem solving skills.
    • Proficent with 3DSMAX.
    • Proficent with Z-Brush and/or Mudbox.

Portfolio Requirements

All portfolios must contain a detailed shot breakdown of the work. It must be very clear what you, the applicant, are responsible for in your reel, screenshots, scanned pictures, web page portfolio, etc. We would also like you to include your name in the subject line of your emailed application, as well as the competition number of the position(s) that you are applying for.
Please submit a portfolio, including some (or all) of the following:

    3D portfolio
    • Examples of various animations applied to humanoid figures and animal figures
    • Examples of cinematic work
    • Character rigging examples
    • Examples of technical animation work: rigging, skinning
    • Examples of various animations cycles applied to game characters
    • Examples of motion capture direction and clean-up
    2D portfolio (no originals please)
    • Storyboarding skills
    • Figure drawing
    • Color work

How to apply
Please quote the following competition number in the subject line of your electronic application, or include in the cover letter of your mailed application:

ArtistJobsAustin -AT- bioware.com

08-ANIM-BWA-42

To apply by mail, send your resume to:
Animator #08-ANIM-BWA-42
BioWare Corp.
200, 4445 Calgary Trail
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6H 5R7

Along with your submission, you MUST include a signed product submission agreement. You can fax it to: 780-439-6374
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Due to the volume of applications we receive for our job postings, we are unable to respond personally to telephone inquiries regarding the status of an application. Only candidates being considered for interview will be contacted at this time.

Posted by AlexMarquez on February 7, 2008 01:12 AM