Animation Art Intern - Summer 2027

As an Animation Artist Intern on League, you will focus on champion animation. You will collaborate with animators on character lore, their motivations, and incorporate their core identity with project requirements to create impactful character performances. Your animations will be hand keyed in Maya using classic animation principles. You will also be responsible for implementation within our proprietary game engine. Throughout the process you will have an onboarding partner and a mentor to guide you through our development process. 

Responsibilities:

• Create high quality animations for a diverse and expanding universe, including bipeds, quadrupeds, and monsters
• Help develop new features and technologies to expand the content pipeline
• Collaborate with designers and artists to create animation assets that fulfill the requirements of the project’s game and visual design
• Recognize areas of opportunity and help other animators level up to AAA-title-standards 
• Consistently meet project deadlines in a timely manner without compromising artistic integrity
• Balance craft and product feedback with a strong empathy and focus on player value
• Consistently communicate by proactively collaborating, directing next steps, and providing clear goals and outcomes to your team

Required Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a college, university or non degree program
• Available to work full-time hours for 10-12 week at our Los Angeles Headquarters
• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Experience with action and combat based animations showcasing locomotion cycles for characters and creatures of diverse shape and size (bipeds, quadrupeds, etc.)
• Experience with Maya

Desired Qualifications:

• Gaming specific animations through professional or personal work
• Experience w/ Unreal Engine and Animation Blueprints

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will certainly be looking at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

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