# Viewmodel Animator (Apex Legends)

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $77,700 - $107,900 CAD / $42 - $63 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

We are looking for a talented and experienced Viewmodel Animator to join the Apex Legends Animation team. You are passionate about making games in a collaborative environment, working with a team of experienced developers to craft immersive, player-first experiences. In this role, you will realize high-quality first-person animations that bring our gameplay to life.

**Responsibilities**

- Deliver powerful, memorable first-person animation performances from initial blockout to final polish, with style and personality.

- Work with Designers and members of all disciplines cross-discipline teams to ensure that we achieve responsive, immersive gameplay that feels rewarding to our players.

- Maintain communication across all relevant disciplines (production, design, art, audio, VFX) throughout the development of your areas of responsibility.

- Help to establish efficient pipelines and procedures across the animation teams

- Be proactive in assessing and evolving both workflow and player experience for Apex Legends.

**Requirements**

- 2+ years of professional game development experience

- A strong understanding of video game animation development

- Proficiency in a 3D animation package such as Autodesk Maya

- Examples of high fidelity first person viewmodel animation and a range of expressive personality and grounded body mechanics

- Experience working with other domains–especially Designers, Engineers and Artists

- A proactive work ethic and a sense of responsibility for the continued success of Apex Legends

**Compensation and Benefits** The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

**PAY RANGES** \* British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) $77,700 - $107,900 CAD \* California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) $42 - $63 USD

## Skills

### Required
- 3D animation
- Autodesk Maya
- game development
- video game animation

### Nice to have
- first-person viewmodel animation
- expressive personality
- grounded body mechanics

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