3D Animator, Senior

Location: Remote from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, or Ukraine

Company

hirify.global is Room 8 Group's art team, delivering 2D and 3D art, characters, environments, UI, UX, and other art solutions for game developers and publishers across AAA and AA game projects.

What you will do

• Create gameplay animations for characters, weapons, and interactions across various game genres.
• Combine keyframe animation and motion capture data to produce realistic and responsive character movement.
• Implement and optimize animations in Unreal Engine, Unity, or proprietary game engines.
• Collaborate with game designers, programmers, animators, artists, and project managers on character movement, combat, interactions, and production workflows.
• Work with character rigs, improve animation pipelines and workflows, and create technical guidelines.
• Maintain animation quality standards and mentor junior animators.

Requirements

• 5+ years of gameplay animation experience, preferably in AAA action or FPS games, including at least one shipped title.
• Advanced Maya proficiency and strong keyframe animation skills.
• Experience creating character movement, combat, weapon handling, and interaction animations, preferably including first-person animation.
• Solid experience cleaning up and refining motion capture data.
• Strong understanding of animation principles, character movement, timing, weight, and responsiveness.
• Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine, Unity, or proprietary engines, including animation implementation and optimization.
• Good understanding of character rigs, animation pipelines, and technical constraints.
• Proven leadership and mentoring abilities, strong communication and collaboration skills, and strong organizational and time management skills.
• Portfolio demonstrating high-quality gameplay animation work and intermediate-plus written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in MotionBuilder and HIK motion capture workflows.
• Knowledge of Motion Matching and advanced animation systems.
• Experience with animation scripting and tools development using Python or MEL.
• Experience with facial animation and MetaHuman pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote cooperation from the listed eligible countries.
• Professional trainings, conferences, internal mentorship, and English courses.
• Health insurance, paid vacation, and paid sick leave.
• Diversity and inclusion culture with a community focused on game development.