Studio: Hothead Games
Job Opening: Animator
Location: Canada/Remote
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Art Director to help set and push the animation quality bar for a new Voxel style blockchain MMORPG
- Bring your deep animation expertise to help establish and enhance workflows/processes and make recommendations to the team
- Work with engineers, animators, and technical artists to define, maintain, and improve animation tools and pipeline.
- Serve as an active participant & Game Animation Subject Matter Expert in team art discussions, critiques and reviews.
- Ability to work with production to ensure timely completion of animation tasks
- Ability to work collaboratively with other cross-functional teams such as the design, and art team.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 3+ (for intermediate) and 5+ (for senior) years of work experience in Animation, ideally with Unity.
- Online Portfolio demonstrating animation art skills and technical art skills such as Rigging, VFX, etc.
- Ability to repurpose or modify existing 2D or 3D animations for alternative platforms (PC to Mobile or vice versa)
- Deep knowledge of and experience with rigging and weighting especially retargeting animation across different types of rigs.
- Attention to detail for both aesthetic and technical quality.
- Passion for games, with an ability to critically analyze them
