Canada

VFX, games and animation studios across Canada are hiring right now - 32 studios with open roles this week. The most active are Digital Domain, Ubisoft and Sony Pictures Imageworks, hiring across Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. Demand centres on Compositor, Animator and Lighting Artist roles; the software and skills studios ask for most are Animation, Maya and Unreal Engine. Rebuilt every week from live job postings, so it always shows who is hiring now.

32 studios hiring in Canada · 341 open roles this week

Top cities Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto

Most-wanted Compositor, Animator

Shows only the studios we actually collect data from - those with real openings we've scraped in Canada. Placeholder studios we don't yet track are left out, and nothing here is hand-maintained: a studio joins the moment its first Canada posting lands.

Studios hiring in Canada all studios

open roles in Canada · click a studio for its full profile

Digital DomainVancouver

53

UbisoftMontreal

46

Sony Pictures ImageworksVancouver

44

Netflix AnimationVancouver

27

Epic GamesMontreal

18

FuseFXToronto

18

2K GamesBurnaby

15

KabamVancouver

14

Larian StudiosQuebec

12

Rodeo FXMontreal

11

Walt Disney Animation StudiosVancouver

10

Image EngineVancouver

8

Respawn EntertainmentVancouver

7

CD Projekt RedVancouver

6

People Can FlyMontréal

6

Reel FXMontreal

6

Untold StudiosToronto

6

TitmouseVancouver

5

Bardel EntertainmentVancouver

4

FramestoreMontreal

4

Scopely

4

TendrilToronto

3

DNEGHybrid Remote

2

GameloftMontreal

2

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)Vancouver

2

Outpost VFXMontreal

2

Atomic CartoonsVancouver

1

CinesiteMontreal

1

Hybride TechnologiesMontreal, QC

1

Mavericks VFXToronto

1

RobloxVancouver

1

Torn Banner StudiosOntario

1

Previously hiring in Canada (22)

studios we collected here before - no live roles in Canada right now

Blackbird Interactive

44 past

Cloud Imperium Games

26 past

Eyeline Studios

10 past

Ripple Effect Studios

9 past

WETA FX

9 past

6 past

EA Sports

4 past

WildBrain Studios

4 past

Blizzard Entertainment

3 past

Waterproof Studios

2 past

BArnstorm Visual Effects

1 past

Brown Bag Films

1 past

Certain affinity

1 past

Eidos

1 past

1 past

Gamesim

1 past

Jam City

1 past

1 past

1 past

Singing Frog Studio

1 past

Squeeze Studio Animation

1 past

VOLTA

1 past

Art roles in Canada all roles

creative & craft roles open now

20

Animator

14

Lighting Artist

10

Modeler

8

Surfacing Artist

8

7

FX Artist

7

Look Dev Artist

6

5

5

Animation Supervisor

3

Environment Artist

3

Rigger

3

3

3

Narrative Designer

3

2

2

2

2

Tech roles in Canada all roles

programming, engineering & TD roles open now

11

Technical Director

9

Engine Programmer

8

Gameplay Programmer

6

5

4

2

FX TD

2

Crowd TD

2

1

Art skills in Canada all skills

creative tools & specialties (engines, DCC) in demand

Animation

149

Maya

80

75

Lighting

65

Houdini

58

55

Nuke

50

Rendering

43

Modeling

29

Shading

28

27

Rigging

27

Katana

25

Photoshop

21

Previs

20

Mari

14

13

Unity

12

ZBrush

12

Blender

10

Look Dev

10

10

9

9

Tech skills in Canada all skills

languages & pipeline in demand

Python

77

C++

69

Arnold

21

Git

21

ShotGrid

18

C#

17

Blueprints (UE)

14

VEX

14

Deadline

13

Perforce

12

MEL

10

RenderMan

8

USD

8

6

Vellum

6

Alembic

4

GLSL

4

HLSL

4

Pyro (fire/smoke)

4

Solaris

4

V-Ray

4

HDA

3

HScript

3

Particle Systems

3

Salaries in Canada all salaries

typical disclosed pay for creative & craft roles, USD-normalized

p25$63k

median$78k

p75$109k

based on 48 disclosed craft salaries in Canada

AI in job ads in Canada AI impact

13% of the 341 open roles in Canada name an AI tool

Flux

26

Aider

14

ComfyUI

3

Claude

2

2

2

LoRA

2

ChatGPT

1

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