Company Description

Founded in 1992, Montreal-based Behaviour Interactive is one of North America’s largest independent game developers with close to 600 employees and over 70 million games sold on every platform. To date, the company’s games have reached more than 200 million players worldwide. In 2019, its most successful IP, the award-winning Dead by Daylight, celebrated 12 million players. Behaviour counts amongst its partners some of the world’s most recognized brands such as Sony, Disney, Netflix, Activision, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, Xbox Game Studios, Google, Bombardier, Wargaming, HBO, NetEase, Gaea, La Capitale, and many more.

Job Description

Under the Art Development Director and Art Director’s supervision, the Sr Animator works with the animation team to bring to life a large variety of assets.

Responsibilities:

• Effectively applies animation principles to create high-quality animations;
• Understands game design intention and can list required animations for simple behaviour;
• Able to adapt their work to create new animations based on existing brands;
• Edit their animations within a game engine.

Qualifications

• Diploma in a 2D/3D animation program;
• Minimum 3 years of experience in the video game industry;
• Experience in making animations for a video game;
• Portfolio and resume demonstrate a good understanding of the principles of animation;
• Good knowledge of human anatomy;
• Expertise in Maya or other equivalent 3D software;
• Knowledge of Unreal a plus;
• Must have a great sense of observation and a good knowledge of a video game production;
• Passion for animation and video games;
• Capacity to work in a team;
• Capacity to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.

Additional Information

A portfolio demonstrating your mastery of the principals of animation is required with your application.