Animation Co-op

Salary Range: 22 to 24 (Currency: CAD) (Pay period: per-hour-wage)

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games.

The key function of an Animation Co-op is to deliver high quality animations for our games. This role will work collaboratively with other animators and artists to produce dynamic and polished art, and improve workflows and pipeline.

This is a 4-month position from January to April 2027. This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our Montréal studio.

In this role, you can expect to:

Key Accountabilities

Deliver World-Class Assets and Animations for Our Games

• Work under the guidance of experienced animators to help with various aspects of game animation, including character animations, creature movements, object interactions, and environmental animations.
• Create, edit, and polish animations.
• Work efficiently within deadlines and milestones.
Work Collaboratively with the Art Production Team:
• Work closely with other members of the game development team, including game designers, artists, and programmers, to ensure animations align with the game's design and technical requirements.


Learn the Animation Techniques & Delivery Pipelines

• Build proficiency in game animation. Create seamless loops, squash and stretch characters, character interactions, and handle props. Learn how to implement these in the engine and have them ready for the next step in the pipeline.
• Pursue opportunities to push skills and tackle new and interesting challenges to improve artistic and technical skills.
• Develop the skills to use animation software such as Maya, and learn the Unity game engine.
• Absorb advice, knowledge, and ideas from the other artists and designers to continually improve quality and speed of animation deliverables. 

Your background includes:

• Working towards a post-secondary degree in a related field (animation, fine arts, computer graphics, etc.)
• Introductory knowledge of game development.
• Solid understanding of animation principles.
• Good understanding of character animation and body in motion mechanics.
• Experience with animation tools; experience in rigging is an asset.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
Employee and Family Assistance Program: This program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
Cool spaces: Our offices are in Vancouver, Montreal, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, or watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!