Animation skills appear in nearly a third of postings this week, outpacing Unreal Engine and C++ work. The USA remains the largest market at roughly a quarter of opportunities, while Roblox leads individual studios with 149 open positions. AI-related tools remain absent from job requirements across the sampled postings.
- Navisca Data, weekly
Art Trends70 art postings
Unreal Engine leads art skill demand at 27 postings, with Animation and Maya each at 25 and 22. Designer roles, animators, and generalists comprise most art openings this week.
Roblox and DNEG led with
149 postings each.
Animation topped the skill stack at
31%, ahead of Unreal Engine (24%) and C++ (21%).
Japan carried
588 of
2390 postings, with USA (544) and Canada (379) trailing.
29 more countries shared the long tail across 44 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-W292390 open postings, collected this week from 44 public hiring sources - studios' own careers pages and the public job boards they post to.Only currently-listed, public roles - nothing behind a login.