Character Artist & Animator Job at Game Department, Los Angeles, CA

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  • Game Department
  • Los Angeles, CA

Job Description

Bring realistic humanoid characters to life with Reallusion Character Creator and Unity.

About Game Department

We're a teeny tiny indie studio working on our first game. We want to work with people who want to work on something scrappy and special and beautiful.

Description

We're looking for someone to join our tiny team working on an ambitious third-person video game and help us figure out how to make great looking animated humanoid characters.

This is a contract position with the potential to become full time as the game progresses.

Responsibilities

  • Create characters, clothing, hair, and textures in Reallusion CC5
  • Help create a library of animation clips that can be sequenced for RPG-style dialogue trees (mix-and-match, we won't have bespoke animations for every line)
  • Create custom animations for cutscenes
  • Author gameplay and locomotion animations
  • Animate facial + body in  iClone 8(or equivalent)
  • Ensure LODs, materials, and physics/cloth are working in engine in Unity 6 HDRP

Requirements

  • Experience designing characters and clothing with Reallusion Character Creator 4 or 5
  • Experience with facial and body animation
  • Experience bringing animated characters into Unity
  • Experience with wiring animations into Unity's animation systems

Nice-to-have

  • General animation experience for non-humanoid characters
  • Experience with motion, facial, or performance capture technology that could be implemented with this pipeline
  • Experience with motion matching
  • Programming experience in Unity / C#

Salary

$40 - $100 per hour

To apply

Please fill out the application form to provide your resume, a link to your portfolio, and (optional) cover letter. Please do not email about this job, only applications via the web form will be considered.

Job Tags

Remote job, Hourly pay, Full time, Contract work,

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