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Join Gameloft Saigon's Animation team. You'll create believable, high-quality animations for ongoing projects. You'll work with Lead Animators, Lead Artists, designers and programmers to get the best result on every platform. Middle-level animators will grow their craft in a strong art team. Senior animators will also help shape our guidelines and coach junior talent.\nWhat it means on a daily basis\nCreate believable, high-quality key-framed animations for real-time and pre-rendered sequences.\nAnimate characters and game objects, in either a cartoony, stylized or realistic style.\nRig and skin your assets, including complex rigs.\nWork with game designers and programmers to deliver the best animation within platform limits.\nWork with the production team, Lead Animator and Lead Artists, and meet project milestones and deadlines.\nHelp establish art production guidelines, and spot and prevent future mistakes.\nCoach and train junior animators.\nWhat success will look like\nPipeline: Read the production pipeline documents and follow them.\nQuality: Deliver animation assets that meet the high quality standards set by the 3D Leads.\nFeedback: Take feedback and adapt to technical requirements with a positive attitude. Express ideas and concerns calmly.\nCommunication: Give your Animator Lead and peers regular verbal and written updates on progress.\nCollaboration: Work closely with artists and developers and share your knowledge to improve production.\nWho you would be working with\nYou will be reporting to the Animator Supervisor, Art Producer, and Art Lead/Director.\nClosely collaborating with other disciplines in the Art team (e.g., 2D Art, 3D Art, Technical Art, VFX) and other teams in the project (e.g., Game Design, Programming).\nWhere can this role take you?\nAdvance vertically to higher level in the Animation team such as Senior or Principal position.\nTransition to other disciplines within the Art team: 3D Artist, Technical Artist, VFX Artist, and so on.\nRecruitment journey\nOnline screening call with recruiter\nDistance art test\nOffline interview with Animator Lead, Art Director, and Producer\n WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED\nGames industry experience, with high proficiency in 3ds Max or Maya. \nAdvanced knowledge of the principles of animation, character motion and physics-based motion.\nExcellent skinning and rigging skills with low to medium polygon counts, and a solid understanding of topology and production constraints.\nStrong grasp of human anatomy, proportion, perspective, composition, color, shading and lighting.\nWHO YOU ARE\nGood spoken and written English, plus clear communication, with the ability to take direction, follow a brief and solve artistic or technical issues.\nProactive, organized and creative, with a good eye for detail.\nAbility to work well under pressure and in a team.\nPassionate about games across platforms.\n WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU\nBenefits\nA hybrid working model with 2 days working from home every week.\nA range of well-being events and policies to support employees physically, mentally, and emotionally.\nVarious training packages, including internal training, training sponsorship, and e-learning platforms (iLearn, Udemy, O'Reilly,...).\nOpportunities to collaborate and train with Gameloft worldwide experts and develop yourself.\nAn attractive monthly salary alongside Tet and other performance bonuses.\nMinimum 12 days of paid annual leave, plus 5 days of paid sick leave, Christmas leave, Birthday leave, CSR leave,...\n100% coverage of mandatory insurance plus extra healthcare insurance.\nA monthly allowance to support lunch meals and working-from-home electricity and Internet bills.\nRelocation support for international candidates joining from overseas.\nLife at Gameloft\nA collaborative workplace environment, with over 15+ nationalities, where hundreds of world-renowned game titles were born.\nAn open-space office, a canteen, a billiard table, a ping-pong table, and a foosball table.\nA gaming room equipped with mutiple devices (PS, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, arcade machine,...).\nA capable and encouraging team of professionals focused on creating compelling video games.\nA global company where you can meet great people around the world.\nA fun place to work in the heart of the city.\nWork location and hours\nLocation: Richmond Building, 207C Nguyen Xi, Binh Thanh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.\nWork hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM (1.5 hours break).\nHow to proceed\nReady to level up your career? Apply now and help us create the next great game!\nPlease note:\nTo ensure a fair and compliant recruitment process under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), please submit your application through the official job posting, preferably via Gameloft website, Gameloft or Gameloft Vietnam LinkedIn pages, or SmartRecruiters. Applications sent via email or LinkedIn messages will not be considered.\nDue to the high volume of applications, only candidates whose profiles most closely match the role needs will be contacted by our recruiters. We sincerely appreciate your understanding and interest.\nWhat's more?\nWant to know more? 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