Animator Job at Valve Corporation, Washington DC

MUY2c3c5cG15VzdQak1FY0pLK0w1ZmZqNmc9PQ==
  • Valve Corporation
  • Washington DC

Job Description

At Valve we look beyond hiring for a set position, but instead, we seek exceptional people with broad skill sets who also exhibit deep expertise in their chosen craft. The animators at Valve are a world-class group of artists working with writers, software engineers, and designers who are continually creating and releasing compelling entertainment experiences to players around the world.

Animators determine work priorities in collaboration with their peers, contributing creative solutions throughout production in a variety of ways. From conceptualizing ideas to producing an extensive range of animated content including dynamic interactive performances and large-scale cinematic moments, whose work is crucial in helping shape ideas. Within each team, they are part of prototyping gameplay experiences with designers and programmers for a diverse array of characters, creatures, and in-game encounters. They also work closely with software engineers to improve our proprietary tools, maximize efficiency of our workflow, and to ensure the animation that we create is exceptional.

At Valve our animators are highly experienced and can demonstrate a number of skills, most importantly:

They collaborate with other employees and solve hard problems that make products better.

Each of them has examples - that they can share - showing that they have done something particularly exciting that makes their work special.

What work or experiences can YOU share that are novel and inspiring?

Our animators’ work often utilizes:

  • Product-level thinking that informs intentional, meaningful decisions from concept to completion.

  • An outstanding ability to portray believable physical movement, strong acting, storytelling and performance of 3D computer-generated characters.

  • A detailed understanding of Maya; experience working with motion capture and building animation state machines.
  • Knowledge of rigging, scripting, modeling, texturing, lighting, and video editing.

  • Prior professional experiences shipping world-class products in the software, television or film industry.

Interested? Send us your reel, resume, and examples of interesting problems you’ve solved. Sorry, we do not accept student reels.

Apply now!

Job Tags

Similar Jobs

Mangrum Career Solutions LLC

Structured Finance Of Counsel Attorney (Multi-City) Job at Mangrum Career Solutions LLC

 ...STRUCTURED FINANCE OF COUNSEL ATTORNEY Multiple Locations Available full list at the bottom of this description. HYBRID A top-10 AmLaw firm with a nationally recognized finance platform, is seeking an experienced Of Counsel or Senior Associate... 

EQL Tech

EdTech Sales Consultant Job at EQL Tech

 ...EdTech Sales Consultant Location: Remote Job Type: Fractional, Contract, Fixed-term Compensation: Highly Competitive Salary The Opportunity EQL Tech are delighted to be working with a private equity backed edtech organization who are seeking an experienced... 

North Shore Strategies

Organizer Job at North Shore Strategies

 ...Organizer North Shore Strategies NYC, Westchester Compensation: $5,000 per month Classification: Exempt Start Date...  .... The ideal candidates are detail-oriented, results-driven professionals with strong backgrounds in field operations, team management,... 

Finora Financial Advisory

Strategic Partnerships Job at Finora Financial Advisory

 ...member CA & CPA-certified team based in Kathmandu, operating as a subsidiary of AIB Holding Corp. (USA). We deliver world-class outsourced accounting, tax, CFO, and SEC reporting services at 6580% less than US market rates. We are expanding aggressively into the... 

BJC Healthcare

BMT Oncology PRN - Clinical Nurse Job at BJC Healthcare

 ...University School of Medicine, supported by a house staff of residents, interns, fellows and other medical professionals. Recognizing its...  ...has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed...