Lead Animator
The Lead Animator will collaborate with internal and external teams to produce innovative character animations, FX animations, game trailers, adverts, and effects for games. This role involves creating, maintaining, and updating assets and images for games across all ventures and platforms, ensuring timely deliveries with agreed quality. The Lead Animator will work with management to accomplish business goals, explore creative concepts, and maintain high-quality work with excellent attention to detail. Proactive communication with team members across the business is essential to ensure requirements are understood and project progress is clear. The role also requires organisation of work, files, and documents for easy use by co-workers, and a continuous development of strong technical understanding of the discipline and software including Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Spine. Learning and understanding the technical possibilities and constraints of the context in which work will be used, following the set asset pipeline, and optimising assets for specific games are key responsibilities. Staying up to date with new advances in the multi-platform online world, presenting work and ideas for comment and review, and managing time effectively by prioritising tasks are also crucial. The Lead Animator will work collaboratively with global team and studio leads for status updates and guidance, and participate in after-business-hours calls as per business need.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to produce innovative character animations, FX animations, game trailers, adverts, and effects for games.
- Create, maintain, and update assets and images for games on all ventures and platforms.
- Ensure timely deliveries with agreed quality of all tasks undertaken by the team.
- Work with management to accomplish business goals.
- Create outstanding work that answers the brief.
- Explore creative concepts fully and offer multiple executions before realising final ideas.
- Maintain high quality work with excellent attention to detail.
- Proactively communicate with team members and people across the business to ensure requirements are understood and progress is clear.
- Organise work, files, and documents to ensure easy use by co-workers.
- Continue to develop a strong technical understanding of the discipline and software including Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Spine.
- Learn and understand the technical possibilities and constraints of the context in which work will be used.
- Follow the set asset pipeline and find the best way to optimise assets for specific games.
- Stay up to date with new advances in the multi-platform online world.
- Present work and ideas ready for comment and review.
- Manage time effectively by prioritising tasks.
- Work collaboratively with global team and studio leads for status updates and guidance.
- Participate in after-business-hours calls as per business need.
- Excellent sense of timing and spacing (required).
- Great spirit of observation of movements and behaviours (required).
- Great drawing skills (required).
- Great concept and storyboard skills with a good eye for colour and composition (required).
- Deep understanding of character animation (required).
- Good understanding of illustration and graphic design (required).
- Good understanding of the Spine tool (required).
- Ability to follow existing styles and brand guidelines (required).
- In-depth understanding of exporting and optimising assets (required).
- Minimum 4+ years of experience in 2D animation work (required).
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (required).
- Proficiency in Spine by EsotericSoftware (required).
- Proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator (required).
- Robust benefits package (required).
- Global career opportunities (required).
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.