Animation work represents roughly one-third of available positions this week, outpacing Unreal Engine and C++ roles. The USA accounts for 27 percent of postings, while AI-adjacent skills appear in 7 percent of listings.
- Navisca Data, weekly
Art Trends66 art postings
Animation skill leads at 30 mentions this week, with Animator roles at 10 postings. Unreal Engine remains the dominant software demand for artists at 24 mentions.
Roblox and Epic Games led with
186 postings each.
Animation topped the skill stack at
33%, ahead of Unreal Engine (26%) and C++ (21%).
USA carried
566 of
2258 postings, with Japan (561) and Canada (338) trailing.
27 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-W422258 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.