3D Animator (Middle/Senior) (Gamedev)

Location: Hybrid, Richmond Building, 207C Nguyen Xi, Binh Thanh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; 2 days working from home per week. Working hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM with a 1.5-hour break.

Company

hirify.global is a global game development company creating video game titles across multiple platforms.

What you will do

• Create believable, high-quality key-framed animations for real-time and pre-rendered sequences.
• Animate characters and game objects in cartoony, stylized, or realistic styles.
• Rig and skin assets, including complex rigs, with low to medium polygon counts.
• Collaborate with game designers, programmers, artists, and production teams to meet platform constraints, milestones, and deadlines.
• Help establish art production guidelines and prevent future production issues.
• Senior-level animators coach and train junior animators.

Requirements

• Games industry experience and high proficiency in 3ds Max or Maya.
• Academic background in animation or equivalent, including hand-drawing, sketching, and/or illustration.
• Advanced knowledge of animation principles, character motion, and physics-based motion.
• Excellent skinning and rigging skills with low to medium polygon counts, plus a solid understanding of topology and production constraints.
• Strong grasp of human anatomy, proportion, perspective, composition, color, shading, lighting, and post-processing.
• Creative, original, attentive to detail, organized, committed, self-disciplined, and passionate about games across platforms.
• Strong communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, decision-making, initiative, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to follow a brief, estimate time accurately, meet deadlines, work independently, collaborate with a team, accept feedback, and remain calm under pressure.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with 2 days working from home every week.
• Well-being events and policies supporting physical, mental, and emotional health.
• Internal training, training sponsorship, e-learning platforms, and collaboration with hirify.global experts worldwide.
• Monthly salary with Tet and performance bonuses; minimum 12 days of paid annual leave, 5 days of paid sick leave, Christmas leave, Birthday leave, and CSR leave.
• 100% coverage of mandatory insurance plus extra healthcare insurance.
• Monthly allowance for lunch and work-from-home electricity and Internet bills; relocation support for international candidates joining from overseas.
• Collaborative open-space workplace with an international team, canteen, recreation areas, and a gaming room.

Hiring process

• Online screening call with a recruiter.
• Distance art test.
• Offline interview with the Animator Lead, Art Director, and Producer.