Job Description

Meta Platforms, a leading virtual reality and augmented reality technology company, is looking for an Animator to join our art team and help bring our creative visions to life. In this role, you will have the opportunity to create and direct highly realistic and emotionally engaging animations for a diverse range of user experiences and products. The ideal candidate should possess a passion for animation, a strong technical background, and a creative eye. We’re looking for someone who is creative, driven, and detail-oriented, with a passion for pushing the boundaries of animation. If you’re excited to join a fast-paced and innovative environment, and are eager to create beautiful, realistic animations, then we want to hear from you!

Animator - VR Art Responsibilities:

• Create highly realistic and emotionally engaging animations, inclusive of believable and visually appealing full-body character animations and poses, through hand-authored, tracked, and procedural systems.
• Act as the representative of the animation team in planning meetings, advocating for what is best for product goals.
• Work with the Art Director, Art Leadership, Product and Design to collaborate, pre-visualize, and create great animation for VR/AR and 2D media.
• Execute and collaborate with the creative team on animations with a keen eye for quality while maintaining consistency across the entire project.
• Communicate with the Engineers, Tech Artists and Character Artists to develop and improve animation systems (character, facial, cinematic, procedural) that will raise the bar within the required technical constraints.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends and technologies, and use this knowledge to develop innovative animations.
• Manage and work with multiple vendors, collaborating and providing feedback on technical and artistic solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop task lists to ensure assignments are progressing in alignment with schedules, milestones and overall project goals.
• Demonstrate broad technical expertise crafting animation systems.
• Demonstrate strong communication, organization, time management and prioritization skills.
• Quickly diagnose and solve issues with your cross-functional peers, collaborating and iterating based on the team's needs.
• Be self-directed, work independently and collaboratively with team members, accurately estimate your work and expected development times while making smart tradeoffs between quality and pace.
• Regularly provide peers and external partners artistic feedback and mentorship.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as a game/film 3D animation artist demonstrating knowledge to create highly detailed and realistic, emotionally expressive animations.
• Experience with DCC packages such as Maya and/or 3DS Max.
• Solid experience with animated characters, creatures, and physically based animations.
• Knowledge of industry standard rigging and skinning system to deliver requested animation quality and performance.
• Experience crafting both key-frame animation as well as editing existing motion capture data assets and a knowledge of animation graphs or procedural animation systems.
• Task driven, self-motivated, proactive and experience to prioritize and manage tasks thriving in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience communicating in a multi-disciplinary team, including engineers, artists, and designers.
• Effective leadership and production management skills along with experience directing animation pipelines.
• Proven interpersonal skills with experience to interact with team members of different disciplines and personality types.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in virtual or mixed reality.
• Experience animating at highest quality using real-time animation rigs & blendshapes preferably in either Unity and or Unreal.

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

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