Game Animator

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Position Summary
Our Reno team at Light & Wonder develops games for specialty markets. We design and develop custom content for Central Determination, Class II, Historical Horse Racing, and Class III markets. We support multiple platforms and operating systems, designing and developing using the Unity game engine. It is an exciting environment where game designers, engineers, artists, sound designers, and testers work together to produce some of the best content for the market.
The Animator brings our games to life by creating eye‑catching visual effects and animations for our games. They work closely with designers, engineers, technical artists, and game artists to ensure the player‑facing vision for the game is achieved. They work with a group of exceptionally talented artists and animators creating animations that complement and enhance the slot player’s experience.

• Collaborate with game artists and designers to conceptualize and create compelling 2D/3D animations, visual effects, and motion graphics for game logos, symbols, backgrounds, and features.
• Work closely with software engineers and technical artists to prepare animations for integration into the game.
• Understand and resolve technical issues relating to graphics (e.g., rendering, streaming, memory management, playback performance, etc.).
• Communicate with the game designer and development team in an iterative development process.
• Maintain well‑organized working files to facilitate file sharing and collaborative work.
• Archive all final working files for future use using version control software.
• Ability to push creative projects from concept to final execution with minimal supervision.
• Collaborating with the team on the execution of both large and small projects with the same enthusiasm.
• Maintaining existing products and providing assets for marketing purposes.
• Ability to communicate well with different people even under pressure.
• Be passionate, motivated and excited about what you do!
• Willing to be trained to upgrade skillset.

This is a hybrid role, 3 days a week in office based at our studio in Reno, NV. We provide relocation assistance for out of state candidates.

• 2‑5 years or professional experience in 2D/3D animation and/or motion graphic design.
• Gaming industry experience is preferred, but not required.
• Experience with Unity engine.
• Experience on Spine animation software.
• Animate 2D/3D game assets such as Characters, logos, and Symbols (preferred, not required).
• Able to create 3D assets using Maya and other 3D animation package (preferred, not required).

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

• The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations.

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming 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.

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  for EEOC Poster.