hyperhug - Senior 3D Animator

Remote - Asia-Pacific *5mo ago

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in animation production. • 3+ years of experience creating animations for games. • A strong portfolio showcasing different types of animation. • Experience working with both keyframe and mocap animation. • Experience animating first-person and third-person weapons. • Professional experience working with Maya. • Strong understanding of animation principles, including posing, timing, and sense of weight. • Understanding of how animation systems function inside game engines. • English - B1+ level, Russian - C1 level.

Responsibilities

• Creating keyframe animations for characters, weapons, and gameplay objects in both first-person and third-person perspectives. • Cleaning and refining motion capture data to achieve polished in-game results. • Producing animations for skins and additional in-game content. • Preparing and exporting animation assets for integration into Unity. • Maintaining high animation quality with strong attention to posing, timing, and weight.

Benefits

• Interesting weapon work: both real-world firearms, and fantasy skins, including upgradeable skins and progression lines. • We're always looking for a fresh visual take and growing the artistic side of the team, so your ideas about how animation should look and feel have a real place here. • We explore and adopt new technologies and tools in our pipeline instead of working by inertia. • We provide all the software, plugins, AI tools, and asset libraries you need for your work. • High autonomy: we trust your expertise and don't micromanage. • Remote work format. • A passionate and supportive team that values creativity and ownership. • Opportunities for professional growth. • A culture built on initiative, transparency, and collaboration.