Animation skills appear in over one-third of postings this week, outpacing Unreal Engine and Python by a clear margin. The USA accounts for roughly a quarter of opportunities, while AI-adjacent work remains minimal at 5.6% of the market. Roblox leads individual studios with 180 positions across the week's 36 postings.
- Navisca Data, weekly
Art Trends91 art postings
Animation skill demand leads at 46 postings this week, with Animator roles at 10 openings. Maya remains the top software tool across art positions.
Roblox and Riot Games led with
180 postings each.
Animation topped the skill stack at
34%, ahead of Unreal Engine (26%) and Python (22%).
USA carried
572 of
2339 postings, with Japan (545) and Canada (375) 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-W452339 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.