About the role
Role Overview
We are hiring a contract 3D artist to own our stylized asset pipeline end-to-end, from originating 2D concepts through modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating in 3D, delivered as pre-rendered animation.
Responsibilities
- Originate 2D concept art for main app character and new in-app assets.
- Build our main character's hero package: model, texture, and rig in 3D.
- Include a facial expression system.
- Deliver the three-view design sheets, expression set, and pose studies that anchor the catalog's canon.
- Author microinteraction, emote, and hero-object animation sets.
- Render and export shipped animation as flipbook loops (animated WebP) within published frame and duration budgets, with frame counts recorded per loop.
- Ship a designed static-settle frame for every animated piece as a first-class deliverable, the reduced-motion presentation, designed rather than extracted.
- Deliver to the file standards: separated render layers where specified, plus the editable masters (3D scenes and layered 2D files).
- Ensure no engine-locked outputs: Unreal Engine and Unity workflows or packages are not acceptable deliverables.
- Keep the masters migration-ready: sensible topology, named rig controls, and clip organization that a future real-time pipeline could consume without rework.
- Design original work only.
Company Information
NovaForge Studios is a small team in Tampa, FL building tools for tabletop and trading card game players. We got tired of juggling apps just to play with our friends, so we’re building the fix.