Position Overview

You will confidently and respectfully challenge the status quo in order to improve things. Assertive when needed, you voice concerns, generate ideas for improvements, and stay on the cutting edge of animation technology and technique. Confident in your decision making, you nevertheless think carefully before you speak and act.

Main Responsibilities
- Produce high quality animation using animation principles for characters, environments, UI, VFX.
- Encouraging and generating creative ideas and solutions with the team.
- Demonstrate excellent time management, to deliver animation to required quality, specification and time.
- Proficient level of communication and emotional intelligence for cross discipline collaboration and problem solving.
- Demonstrate strong understanding of how animation supports gameplay and narrative with the ability to communicate these links to the team.
- Demonstrate proficiency in 3D animation software (e.g. Maya, Blender, Unity).
- Assist in the preparation of assets for animation using Photoshop.




- Prioritizing optimization when integrating animations within a game team’s game engine.

Desired Skills and Experience
- 10+ years of game development experience.
- Senior level animation skills (2D/3D, character, workplace, UI, VFX)
- Senior level communication and problem solving skills.
- The ability to provide and receive feedback.
- Software experience in: Maya, Unity, Photoshop, Perforce, Git
- Technical experience modeling, skinning and rigging 2D/3D assets/characters.
- Knowledge of game development on multiple projects, enabling pragmatic, strategic judgements and providing creative ideas and solutions to the team.
- Proven experience delivering animations on ambitious timelines.
- Experience working on business level tasks, e.g. cross discipline pipeline development.
- Excellent showreel.
- A love of games

What we offer you:
- Work in a studio that has complete P&L; ownership of games
- Competitive salary, discret

📌 Principal Animator (Bengaluru)
🏢 Zynga
📍 Bengaluru