Animator

Role overview

Character animation

• Create high-quality keyframe animation for interactive characters and creatures with strong personality.
• Animate cycles, transitions, interactions, and one-off performance beats to a polished final standard.
• Apply timing, weight, spacing, arcs, posing, staging, anticipation, follow-through, and appeal; iterate quickly while maintaining quality.

Real-time delivery and collaboration

• Prepare and export animation into Unity within engine and performance budgets; collaborate on state machines, transitions, blend trees or spaces, and looping behavior.
• Maintain naming conventions, file structures, frame ranges, and export settings according to pipeline standards.
• Work with riggers to test rigs and provide feedback; collaborate with 3D artists and engineers to resolve animation dependencies.
• Support motion capture sessions and clean up captured data when needed; maintain and extend animation sets consistently.
• Build reference libraries and study live-action, human, and animal motion.

Experience and core qualifications

• Three to five years of professional experience as a character or 3D animator.
• Strong keyframe animation skills in Autodesk Maya and a solid grasp of animation principles.
• Experience delivering animation into Unity or Unreal and comfort working with rigs and raising rigging issues constructively.
• Ability to take direction, iterate quickly, meet production deadlines, and collaborate and communicate clearly.

Showreel submission

• Submit a showreel or portfolio link showing finished character or creature animation rather than work-in-progress passes.
• Identify the applicant's specific contribution to each shot and include a range of performance such as body mechanics, acting, and interaction.

Preferred experience

• Shipped games, AR or VR titles, or high-end interactive experience work is a plus.
• Motion capture cleanup experience and facial animation or lip sync work are nice to have.
• Familiarity with Blender and/or iClone is nice to have.

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