Staffing companies are a common way to get started in the gaming industry as many studios hire a significant amount of contract work. 6ft Staffing in Houston is a staffing company that has multiple tech positions and has an internship program open for summer 2019.
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Blue Sky Animation Studio *creators of the Ice Age movies, Ferdinand, Rio* has summer internships open now:
Internships open:
- Animation
- Effects
- Environment
- Lighting
- Character
- Character Simulation
- Crowds
- Story
Careers
Groove Jones is a VR studio in Dallas. They have several summer internships. These are UNPAID INTERNSHIPS so be aware of this, but if you are able with your summer plans, work unpaid, this could possibly be a good opportnity.
Zenimax owns multiple studios, including ID and Bethesda. Here is the link to the Zenimax job site. If you have a specific studio that interests you (i.e. Id-in Dallas, or Bethesda-Dallas or Bethesda-Austin) then select that studio on the careers page. You can also search by dev path.
There are several job openings at the Dallas and Austin studios (as well as other Zenimax studios)
EA Internships around the world have openings for summer internships in multiple disciplines: https://www.ea.com/careers/students
There is currently a Product Design Internship open at Hasbro toys and should be more to come. Product Design is essentially toy design concepting.
Here is the link to the internship page: https://jobs.hasbro.com/go/Internships-and-Co-Ops/2481000/
Insomniac Games summer internships just went live. They have internships available in Animation, Programming, Rigging, Lighting, User Research, Character, Design, and Environment. Candidates must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited program. https://insomniac.games/careers/
Simon and Schuster (book publishing house) has openings for paid summer internships.
Fujitsu’s Richardson Texas studio has a software developer summer internship https://jobs.fnc.fujitsu.com/job/Richardson-Software-Development-Intern-TX-75082/498589200/
Quite a few internships at various EA studios for software engineers, artists and designers https://www.ea.com/careers/students
Scientific Games in Scottsdale, AZ has internships and there are a few jobs in other studios for animators https://www.scientificgames.com/careers/all-jobs (sorry, their site won’t let me copy a more specific url)
DHX (Children’s animation and live action content studio) Makers of many children’s television shows. Many openings for 2D and 3D artists and animators.
Nickelodeon has several artists job openings, including a storyboard artist on Sponge Bob
Titmouse Animation Production Studio has full time artist positions and internship positions in LA, NY and Vancouver
Blizzard extended the deadline on internship applications to this Friday, December 7. There are over 70 internships available.