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This internship is for Summer 2019. 

Come join the award-winning God of War development team! Sony Santa Monica Studio is looking for an animation intern to help us create imaginative and visually stunning worlds that set the bar for creativity and complexity on the PS4. This individual will contribute to the vision of amazing, top of class games, animating and breathing life into the performances of our characters and game world. Help us create the games that will set the PS4 apart from the rest! 

Key frame skills and understanding of basic animation techniques are necessary. Having some knowledge of motion capture driven animation principles and pipelines is a plus. You can work with high-level direction, possessing strong leadership skills, production-sensibilities, and the talent to produce and implement the highest quality work. 

An animation team member must possess the ability to effectively collaborate with the animation director and game director to create character performances that are visually stunning while also working with a wide range of development team members to ensure technical feasibility.

Responsibilities:

• Works with a group of animators to create compelling and consistent performances for primary and secondary characters utilizing both hand and mo-cap animation.
• Is a contributor in creating high quality character animation at a quality bar suitable for next-generation console development in order to define and achieve a product’s visual style. 
• Facilitates requests or information needs regarding any aspect of the animation creation process as requested.
• Work in a team-oriented environment and use organizational and interpersonal skills on a daily basis and bring a creative and proactive attitude to the task of animating performances.
• Actively advances skill set and abilities by keeping aware of industry trends and techniques, evaluating competitive products, learning new software packages and traditional art methods.

Qualifications: 

• A Junior, Senior, or graduate student currently enrolled in a BA or MA program majoring in Fine Arts, Visual Art, Studio Art, Computer Animation, Interactive Entertainment, Illustration or related field.
• Animation Demo reel demonstrating a proficiency of classic animation principles and its fundamentals (staging, timing, anticipation, follow through, exaggeration, squash and stretch) as well as the ability to create the full range of lifelike performances from the subtle to the dramatic and powerful.
• Experience working with Motion Builder and motion capture performance data is a plus. Please be fluent in Maya.
• Should have a good understanding of camera movement, staging, and storytelling techniques that will be carried through the creation of cinematic sequences
• Excellent communication, time-management and organizational skills. A strong ability to work across multiple disciplines to gather feedback and address cross-functional issues. Penchant for practical innovation and the ability to bring new ideas to the table.
• Passionate player of games with an ability to analyze competitive products for their strengths and weaknesses.

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information or membership in any other legally protected category. 

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