# Outsource Support Animator (Apex Legends)

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Respawn is seeking an Outsource Support Animator to bridge internal gameplay animation and external partner production for Apex Legends.

This hybrid role combines hands-on gameplay animation work with ownership of outsourced animation execution, feedback pipelines, and milestone alignment across a broad range of features.

You will serve as both a creative contributor and external development coordinator, ensuring partner-produced animation meets Apex’s gameplay clarity, responsiveness, and performance standards within a live-service production cadence.

**Responsibilities**

Gameplay Animation Execution

- Block and prototype gameplay animations to establish timing, weight, and design intent

- Partner with Animation Directors and Gameplay teams to co-direct motion capture sessions

- Review, refine, and integrate vendor-delivered keyframe and mocap cleanup work

- Ensure assets meet gameplay readability, responsiveness, and technical requirements

External Development Coordination

- Manage day-to-day communication with external animation vendors

- Provide clear, structured feedback aligned with internal animation direction

- Partner with Animation Directors to define briefs and reference packages

- Track sprint and milestone deliverables, revisions, and approval cycles

- Identify risks in quality or schedule and escalate proactively

- Support vendor onboarding and documentation updates

- Provide performance notes and help shape capture goals

Pipeline & Integration

- Export, ingest, and validate animation assets in-engine

- Maintain animation briefs, scope breakdowns, and feedback documentation

- Support Statement of Work (SOW) creation with detailed asset estimates

- Ensure naming conventions, rig compatibility, and version control standards

- Coordinate with Tech Animation and Engineering to resolve integration issues

**Requirements**

- 2+ years of professional game animation experience

- Strong blocking, gameplay timing, and polish skills

- Experience working directly with outsourced animation teams

- Combat Animation Experience

- First Person Viewmodel Animation Experience

- Strong knowledge of Maya and motion capture workflows

- Familiarity with engine integration pipelines

- Experience tracking work in Jira or similar tools

- Live service development experience

- Experience writing animation briefs, asset estimates, and production documentation

## Skills

### Required
- Maya
- motion capture
- game animation
- animation direction
- Jira

### Nice to have
- Combat Animation
- First Person Viewmodel Animation
- engine integration pipelines
- live service development

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