Animation skills appear in nearly a third of postings this week, outpacing Unreal Engine and C++ as the leading technical requirement. The USA accounts for a quarter of opportunities, while AI-related roles remain marginal at 2.1 percent of the market.
- Navisca Data, weekly
Art Trends69 art postings
Animation skills lead at 32 postings, with Animator roles at 11 openings. Maya remains the top tool sought across art positions this week.
Roblox and Epic Games led with
164 postings each.
Animation topped the skill stack at
32%, ahead of Unreal Engine (26%) and C++ (21%).
Japan carried
550 of
2312 postings, with USA (536) and Canada (387) trailing.
26 more countries shared the long tail across 49 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-W362312 open postings, collected this week from 49 public hiring sources - studios' own careers pages and the public job boards they post to.Only currently-listed, public roles - nothing behind a login.