Lead Animator

We are excited to welcome a skilled and dedicated Animator to our dynamic Art and Graphics team at Aristocrat! As a leading company in gaming content and technology, we offer an outstanding opportunity to join an ambitious organization that thrives on creativity and innovation. This role is central to our mission of delivering world-class visual experiences across various gaming platforms, including mobile and web environments. You'll work alongside a hardworking team of artists, designers, and developers, ensuring flawless creation of character animations, game trailers, FX, and promotional videos. This is your chance to create a significant impact and contribute to outstanding projects that entertain millions worldwide!

What You'll Do:-

• Build outstanding animations that answer the brief and explore creative concepts fully.

• Ensure high-quality work with excellent attention to detail.

• Collaborate proactively with team members and collaborators across the business.

• Coordinate work and files to maintain a clean asset pipeline.

• Continuously develop technical understanding of tools like Photoshop, Spine, and Pixi.js.

• Grasp the technical opportunities and limitations within mobile and web game environments.

• Optimize assets for specific games following the established asset pipeline.

• Stay updated with advances in animation and game art.

• Present work and ideas for comment and review.

• Manage time effectively, prioritizing tasks appropriately.

• Innovate and encourage with a passion for animation!

• Work collaboratively with distributed team and studio leads for status updates and mentorship.

• Participate in after-business-hours calls as required.

What We're Looking For

• At least 4 years of experience in 2D animation work – Required

• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop for crafting and editing animation frames – Must

• Strong hands-on experience with Spine for skeletal 2D animation – Must

• Experience with Texture Packer for crafting and optimizing sprite sheets – Must

• Familiarity with Pixi.js Text Style Editor for in-game text styles – Must

• Experience with Pixi.js Particles Editor for crafting particle effects – Must

• Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, After Effects) – Big Advantage

• Experience animating symbols, backgrounds, and FX for casino or mobile games – Big Advantage

• Experience with the Pixi.js framework in game development – Big Advantage

• Knowledge of multi-platform asset optimization for mobile and web – Big Advantage

• Experience working in agile methodology with Scrum framework – Advantage

• Solid portfolio showcasing 2D animation projects featured in released game titles – Big Advantage

We look forward to seeing your creative work come to life in our exciting projects!

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Philosophie de rémunération

Nous offrons un programme complet de rémunération et d’avantages sociaux conçu pour demeurer concurrentiel sur le marché, soutenir votre bien-être et reconnaître votre contribution à notre réussite. Notre approche repose sur un principe de rémunération au rendement qui récompense l’impact individuel. Votre programme de rémunération sera déterminé en fonction de facteurs tels que vos compétences, votre expérience, vos qualifications et votre lieu de travail.

Selon votre poste et votre lieu de travail, vous pourriez être admissible à des primes et incitatifs annuels, à des avantages liés à la santé et au bien-être, à des congés rémunérés, à des régimes de retraite, à une couverture d’assurance ainsi qu’à d’autres avantages locaux ou prévus par la loi.

Les détails précis de la rémunération et des avantages associés à ce poste seront discutés au cours du processus de recrutement.