Animator

Role overview

Character animation

• Create high-quality keyframe animation for interactive characters and creatures, including cycles, transitions, interactions and one-off performance beats.
• Apply timing, weight, spacing, arcs, posing, staging, anticipation, follow-through and appeal while iterating to a polished standard.

Real-time delivery and collaboration

• Prepare and export animation into Unity and work within engine and performance budgets; coordinate state machines, transitions, blend trees or spaces, and looping behavior with engineers.
• Maintain pipeline naming, file structures, frame ranges and export settings; test rigs with riggers and collaborate with artists and engineers.
• Support motion-capture sessions and data cleanup, maintain animation sets, and build reference libraries from live-action, human and animal motion.

Required qualifications

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

Showreel requirement

• Submit a showreel or portfolio link showing finished character or creature animation rather than work-in-progress passes.
• Clearly identify personal contributions and demonstrate a range of body mechanics, acting and interaction.

Nice to have

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

About Analog