# ViewModel Animator (Apex Legends)

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**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.

- Pay ranges: $77,700 - $107,900 CAD (British Columbia), $42 - $63 USD (California)

- Benefits include vacation, sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits, extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- Autodesk Maya
- video game animation development
- game development
- first-person animation
- cross-discipline collaboration

### Nice to have
- high fidelity first person viewmodel animation
- expressive personality and grounded body mechanics
- Designers, Engineers and Artists collaboration

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