Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Light & Wonder is looking for an experienced visual effects animator/motion graphics artist who enjoys creating expressive characters, building rich worlds, and telling evocative and emotive stories. You’ll use your artistic and technical skills to set the right tone in environments, create mood, atmosphere, depth, and enrich the player experience with striking effects. Your companions on this journey are a team of intrepid and experienced slot game artists and developers who have been responsible for some of the most daring, original, and successful slot gaming products developed in the last decade.

You will deliver control and movement to characters, creatures, objects, text, scenery and environment displayed within electronic games, websites or software products.

Essential Job Functions:

• Develop visual effects animations using traditional 2D, 3D, and motion design techniques for Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM) products.

• Apply knowledge and uses technical process ability in techniques such as rigging and skinning, kinetics and basic cinematography.

• Able to work autonomously to produce leading animation work within the team, and to ensure top level integrity and quality of assets produced.

• In accordance with creative briefs, develop initial animation concepts and continue these through to final designs.

• Contributes to a range of deliverables within the art production pipeline and EGM studio team.

• Collaborates with programmers and artists to balance seamless movements and optimized performance on the target platform.

• Work closely with software engineers and game designers.

Education:

• Tertiary qualifications in appropriate art related field are preferred, but not essential.

Experience:

• 4+ yrs. experience working in a motion graphics/animation/visual effects capacity, preferably within a game development studio.

• Extensive training/experience in the use of digital art and animation software, including After Effects, Maxon suite, Blender, 3D Max, Maya, or similar.

• Necessary knowledge includes all tasks related to both traditional and 3D animation, particle systems and motion graphics development.

• Preferred knowledge of VFX for character animation, modelling, rigging, lighting, and texturing.

• Employment will also require sound foundational art skills.

Skills and Abilities:

• A critical eye for detail, timing, composition, and capable of following/maintaining stringent guidelines.

• Experience working in a fast-paced production environment.

• Gaming industry/related experience preferred.

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, “L&W”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses.   As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts.   In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles.  As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

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Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.