Animation remains the market leader at 33.7% of postings, outpacing Unreal Engine at 26.4% and C++ at 21.9%. The USA represents 25% of geographic demand while Roblox leads individual studios with 185 open positions. AI-related skills appear in 4.7% of current postings.
- Navisca Data, weekly
Art Trends994 art postings
Animation skills lead art demand at 552 postings, while animator roles top placement at 117 openings. Modeler positions trail at 61 as modeling demand reflects broader modeling-skill interest across visual disciplines.
Roblox and Riot Games led with
185 postings each.
Animation topped the skill stack at
34%, ahead of Unreal Engine (26%) and C++ (22%).
Japan carried
566 of
2297 postings, with USA (549) and Canada (341) trailing.
28 more countries shared the long tail across 72 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-W462297 open postings, collected this week from 72 public hiring sources - studios' own careers pages and the public job boards they post to.Only currently-listed, public roles - nothing behind a login.