Animation leads skill demand at 33 percent of postings, while Unreal Engine and Maya follow at 25 and 21 percent respectively. The USA represents 26 percent of opportunities. AI-related roles remain at under 5 percent of the market.
- Navisca Data, weekly
Art Trends80 art postings
Animation leads art-role demand with 38 postings, while animator roles rank second at 9 openings. Maya remains the most-requested skill across art disciplines.
Roblox and Rockstar Games led with
142 postings each.
Animation topped the skill stack at
33%, ahead of Unreal Engine (25%) and Maya (21%).
Japan carried
592 of
2333 postings, with USA (549) and Canada (369) trailing.
27 more countries shared the long tail across 39 sources.
Skills on the move
trend over the last few weeks
Skills on the move: the skills whose demand changed the most over the last few weeks. The blue number on the left is how many open postings name that skill right now; the line shows the week-by-week move; the arrow and % are the overall trend (green = rising, red = falling). Sorted by how much the demand actually moved.
Week 2026-W262333 open postings, collected this week from 39 public hiring sources - studios' own careers pages and the public job boards they post to.Only currently-listed, public roles - nothing behind a login.