Animator
Candidate-se agora mesmo! Candidatar-se depois Job ID 10139246 Local Vancôver, Canadá Empresa Walt Disney Animation Studios Data da publicação 19/12/2025Descrição do cargo:
About the Role & Team
Animators, grab your reels and prepare to do the best work of your life and join us in making timeless, inspiring films!
Be part of the longest running animation team in history. Work alongside legends. Use your animation powers for good and touch the hearts and inspire generations of audiences around the globe.
We want versatile CG Character Animators who show outstanding understanding of acting, appeal, entertainment, weight, locomotion, anatomy, and dialogue. If you're funny too, that's a plus. We want artists who will bring a distinctive point of view to every shot and bring characters to life with timing, truth, and a touch of surprise. Learn more about our filmmaking process here.
All positions are based in our Vancouver, BC studio starting in April 2026.
What You Will Do
- Effectively tell the story in a meaningful way through vibrant and compelling character acting and movement, reinforcing and pushing on the established style of the film
- Develop a solid understanding of vital digital tools (such as Presto) to create quality animation for feature films and other related projects
- Receive assigned shots in sequence review with the Directors providing general guidance
- Plan shots with an understanding of story/character context
- Block animation using audio dialog track
- Clearly show performance ideas and shot blocking in Director review (animation dailies)
- Closely collaborate with and take direction from Directors and Animation Supervisors, regularly communicating progress, issues, and solutions with leadership and collaborators
- Implement changes and completely finish shots in accordance with production schedule
- Adapt to different stages within a production (development, production, etc)
- Maintain an open and professional demeanor regarding direction, changes, and shifting requirements, supportively and thoughtfully collaborating with others
What We’re Looking For
- The ability to instill appeal into character mechanics, posing, and motion appropriate to the character and style of film
- The ability to design contrast, texture, and rhythm into your timing and spacing
- The ability to uniquely art direct and exaggerate shapes, poses, emotions, and ideas that best suit the character, scene, and overall film
- The ability to instill inventive choices into your performances that feel sincere and believable; choices that always feel specific and true to what a character is feeling and makes them feel like they’re living and thinking. Your acting should engage and surprise the audience and elevate the entertainment value of the scene and film
- The ability to adapt and contribute new approaches, thoughtful solutions, and risk failure responsibly
Requirements
- A reel that is no longer than 2 minutes in length of character animation that illustrates visual storytelling, believable expressions, emotional states, personality, appeal, entertainment, clear timing, weight, physics, balance, and staging
- Proficiency in Presto, Maya or equivalent software required
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in traditional hand-drawn, computer, or stop-motion animation a plus
Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
The hiring range for this position in British Columbia, Canada is C$90,400 to C$150,500 CAD per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other variable pay or benefits, may be offered dependent on the level and position offered.
Sobre Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Combinando a mestria artística e a transmissão de histórias com tecnologia inovadora, o Walt Disney Animation Studios é um estúdio de animação orientado para os cineastas, responsável por criar alguns dos filmes mais adorados de sempre. A Disney Animation continua a basear-se no seu rico legado de inovação e criatividade, desde a primeira longa-metragem totalmente animada, a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, de 1937 , para o próximo recurso do outono de 2024, Moana 2. Entre as criações intemporais do estúdio estão Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia e Encanto.
Sobre The Walt Disney Company:
A The Walt Disney Company, juntamente com suas subsidiárias e afiliadas, é uma líder diversificada em entretenimento familiar e mídia internacional que inclui três segmentos principais de negócios: Disney Entertainment, ESPN e Disney Experiences. Desde seus primeiros passos como um estúdio de desenho animado na década de 1920 até se tornar o atual nome de destaque na indústria do entretenimento, a Disney orgulhosamente dá continuidade a seu legado de criação de histórias e experiências de padrão internacional para toda a família. As histórias, personagens e experiências da Disney tocam consumidores e visitantes de todas as partes do mundo. Com operações em mais de 40 países, nossos funcionários e colaboradores trabalham juntos para criar experiências de entretenimento adoradas por todos.
Esta vaga é oferecida junto à Walt Disney Animation Studios Vancouver Inc., que é parte de um segmento de negócios que chamamos de Walt Disney Animation Studios.