3D Artist

• Support the motion design team across 2D and 3D projects for commercial, social, and digital campaigns
• Assist in animating assets for short-form video, branded content, and broadcast work
• Help prepare project files, exports, and deliverables across multiple platforms
• Organize assets and maintain clean project workflows
• Participate in creative reviews, brainstorms, and internal critiques
• Take feedback constructively and apply revisions efficiently
• Stay curious about trends in motion, culture, design, and emerging tools
• Work alongside experienced designers and directors on real projects

Motion Design Intern – 3-Month Contract, Potential for Full-Time

• Support the motion design team across 2D and 3D projects for commercial, social, and digital campaigns
• Assist in animating assets for short-form video, branded content, and broadcast work
• Help prepare project files, exports, and deliverables across multiple platforms
• Organize assets and maintain clean project workflows
• Participate in creative reviews, brainstorms, and internal critiques
• Take feedback constructively and apply revisions efficiently
• Stay curious about trends in motion, culture, design, and emerging tools
• Work alongside experienced designers and directors on real client projects
• Gain hands-on experience across 2D and 3D pipelines

Motion Design Intern – 3-Month Contract

• Create real-time visual effects, including particles, impacts, powers, transitions, and other gameplay effects.
• Design motion graphics and animation elements to enrich the player experience within the UI/UX environment.
• Integrate and refine creations directly in an in-house game engine.
• Collaborate with the Art, Animation, Design, and Development teams.
• Adapt and optimize effects to meet the performance constraints of mobile games.
• Explore new techniques and contribute to the team’s visual research.
• Receive regular feedback and progressively develop autonomy in production.

VFX & Motion Design Intern

• Portray character and object movements and behaviours, tying them together with gameplay and visual storytelling
• Work with the Principal Animator to design and implement gameplay and cinematic animations
• Apply animation principles such as weight, balance, inertia, and posing
• Apply understanding of motion, acting, and timing
• Ensure animations meet technical and visual quality standards and project artistic direction
• Collaborate with production team members to resolve technical and design issues
• Provide guidance and direction for junior animators
• Anticipate and recognize potential conflicts or production issues
• Communicate technical and artistic constraints and recommend solutions
• Evaluate the animation pipeline for improvement
• Adjust and refine animation as directed by the Art Director and Principal Animator
• Assist with Unreal hookups within motion trees, character components, blend spaces, and related systems
• Participate proactively to further team and project goals
• Mentor junior resources
• Perform other ad-hoc responsibilities as requested

Senior Cinematic Animator

• Develop high-quality full-body and first-person animations for gameplay characters
• Ensure alignment with artistic direction and technical standards
• Set up rigs for characters, weapons, vehicles, and props
• Collaborate with Designers and Programmers to implement animations in-engine using Maya and proprietary engine tools
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues independently
• Use motion-capture data and hand-key animation to create believable characters
• Create hero traversal, combat, boss, gameplay camera cinematography, mission, and open-world animations using advanced game-engine tools
• Work with the Animation team to ensure cohesive execution of the established animation direction
• Provide constructive feedback as necessary
• Communicate with Designers, Programmers, Writers, Project Managers, Art, Audio, Character, and Rigging teams to resolve issues and achieve project goals
• Perform other duties as assigned

Technical Animator

• Animate characters for high-end cinematic animations meeting Blizzard Entertainment's quality standards
• Animate diverse characters and creatures in styles ranging from cartoony to realistic
• Apply body mechanics, character acting, and the 12 principles of animation
• Work collaboratively with Cinematics team peers to create films and games
• Assist in supporting and evolving the Cinematics team with constructive technical and artistic feedback
• Develop, define, and maintain high-end cinematic animations with Directors, Animation Supervisors, and Leads

Senior Animator – Temp, SFD, Cinematics

• Create stylized concepts for characters, creatures/bosses, costumes, weapons, and gear in alignment with the client’s art direction.
• Produce clear, actionable turnarounds, callout sheets, and model packs for 3D artists to use during modeling.
• Collaborate closely with the 3D team and Art Direction to ensure technical feasibility, clear visual hierarchy, and stylistic consistency.

Concept Artist – Character

• Establish and maintain the production and software pipeline and meet deadlines in collaboration with the Lead
• Create high-quality character, creature, and prop rigging and skinning suitable for the project
• Implement character rigging in Maya, including cloth, physics, and hair setups
• Work closely with modelers and animators to maintain a smooth development pipeline and deliver high-quality assets
• Create new riggings
• Create retargeting systems/tools for converting old rigging to new rigging
• Share ownership of pipeline tools and collaborate with engine and project leads on continuous tool improvement
• Provide technical ownership of team output by delivering clean assets or code within established systems and requirements
• Lead R&D projects, pipeline and workflow improvements, and implement post-mortems
• Handle technically difficult bug-fixing efforts
• Share knowledge with less experienced peers
• Occasionally support recruitment projects with HR
• Occasionally support the onboarding process for new hires

3D Artist jobs in Canada