Senior Animator
Embark Studios AB · Stockholm · Tills vidare
Embark Studios AB is seeking a **Senior Animator** to bring characters, creatures, and props to life in a dynamic game experience. Working across gameplay elements and presentation areas such as menus, trailers, and cinematics, the role involves creating high-quality animations and managing the complete implementation pipeline required to experience them in-game. Daily responsibilities include evaluating software, animation techniques, engines, and pipelines, collaborating closely with character artists, technical artists, animators, and designers, and actively participating in playtests to provide feedback. This is a fully **on-site role**, and applications are open exclusively to candidates already residing in Sweden. Applicants are expected to bring **relevant professional animation experience**, a deep artistic understanding, and an excellent visual skill set. Candidates must have the ability to follow game and animation direction while navigating visual, gameplay, and technical constraints. Valuable technical qualifications include familiarity with modern game engines, state flows, and visual scripting, alongside proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and C#. Professional fluency in English is required to collaborate effectively across the team.
Creating experiences is magical… but everyone should be able to do it! We are trying to realize this dream by creating games, communities, and building empowering technologies. If you are passionate about our mission, bring your expertise, enthusiasm and ridiculous ideas. Everyone at Embark contributes as game makers and culture creators. Your willingness to fail and learn with us, and enjoy it, is essential to our success.
Overview As a Senior Animator at Embark your job is to breathe life into the characters, creatures and objects to create a living and dynamic game experience. You use your magnificent skills to make the world come alive and play a critical role enhancing the emotional experience and the gameplay elements of the game.
Examples of responsibilities
- Create high quality animations for a wide range of characters, creatures and props
- Evaluating different softwares, techniques, engines and pipelines
- Be responsible for not just the animations but the whole chain needed to experience it in the game
- Work closely with character artists, technical artists, animators and designers to build a fun and amazing looking game
- Participate in playtests and provide feedback on the game
- Opportunity to delve into gameplay animation as well as presentation areas such as menus, cinematics and trailers
We would love if you have
- Relevant professional animation experience
- A strong passion for animation, games and relevant technologies
- Excellent visual skillset and deep artistic understanding and knowledge
- Ability to follow directions and deliver to quality from a visual, game play and technical perspective
- Great understanding and ability to work according Game and Animation direction as well as technical constraints
- Great communication and collaboration skills
- Modern game engine knowledge, stateflow, visual scripting etc.
- Scripting language knowledge such as python and C#
This is an on-site role, and we are only considering candidates already residing in Sweden.
At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.
Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can’t wait to hear from you (in English)!