Senior 3D Character Animator for Software Company

Currently, we are looking for a **remote Senior 3D Character Animator **to join our team.

Our customer is a mobile app technology company. It focuses on developing the mobile app ecosystem enabling the success of mobile app developers.

**Responsibilities**:

- Support team in all animation efforts, working closely with programmers, designers, production, and everyone else on a tightly-knit game development team
- Build/Maintain high quality character animations for our project
- Coordinate and take part in the design of early 2D or 3D elements during pre-production: storyboard/animatic/previs, gameplay prototyping, fake footage, blocking, etc.
- Help develop and maintain animation standards for the project
- Supporting/Creating a character pipeline that can lean into customization or modularity
- Drive quality and style standards for additional animation development with outsource partners
- Full animation pipe expertise; take an unrigged static character model all the way to animating in the Unity engine

**Requirements**:

- 3+ years prior professional experience as a 3D animator developing games (Preferably worked in Unity engine before)
- Ability to quickly rig and animate a variety of characters and creatures for real-time use in the Unity engine
- Mastery in breathing life into characters of all shapes and sizes
- Excellent blocking skills that allow for rapid results in early iteration and testing
- Highly collaborative; experience working with other artists and can take the lead on strike teams, features, or art lead projects
- Takes initiative and will help create and maintain a vision for a game, understanding that following through with memorable game experiences is a team effort
- A passionate, performance-driven self-starter
- Good 2D skills, but mastery in 3D animation
- Experienced in creating Style guides, Brand guidelines & other necessary documentation
- Be passionate, and love the games you are helping to create. Understand the market and the broad audience, and be able to create artwork that continues to grow and evolve in that space
- Actively seeks out additional ways to learn and grow
- Flexible, and adaptable to changing and evolving needs of a live product
- MUST have a portfolio with work samples that illustrate your expertise in your craft, and have shipped quality games in the mobile space

**Nice to have**:

- Mastery and deep understanding of Unity for mobile game development
- Photoshop (or equivalent) painting mastery
- Interest in player behavior and player experience, with a solid understanding of how character assets in games drive collectibility
- Deep mobile market knowledge
- Ability to work with internal and external artists and outsource companies
- Ability to create 3d character artwork by taking all the way from start to finish (in the engine)
- 3d animation skills in 3dmax/ Maya or sim character model all the way to animating in the Unity engine

Visual Design

3D Character

Adobe Photoshop

Blender

**Бенефиты в поддерживаемых странах**:
Ukraine

**Для тебя**:

- ДМС для тебя и скидки на медицинские услуги для твоей семьи
- Бесплатные сессии с профессиональными психологами и коучами
- Бесплатные спортивные и оздоровительные онлайн-программы
- Стабильный заработок
- Оплачиваемый отпуск

**Для твоей комфортной работы**:

- 100% удаленная работа
- Бесплатный лицензионный софт
- Возможность работать на личном оборудовании (BYOD)
- Стабильная загрузка
- Возможности релокации
- Разные форматы трудоустройства

**Для твоего роста**:

- Бесплатные тренинги по hard и soft skills
- Доступ к LinkedIn Learning платформе
- Курсы иностранных языков
- Доступ к внутренним и внешним электронным библиотекам
- Программа поддержки в сертификации
- Персональный менеджер по карьерному развитию