About the role
Company Overview
Nekki is a game development studio with over 20 years of experience. The studio creates games for mobile, PC, and consoles, focusing on product quality and player experience. The Shadow Fight series and Vector have been downloaded over 1 billion times. Currently, the studio is building new titles, including SPINE and Fight Me.
Position Details
- Role: Senior 3D Character Animator
- Location: Remote
- Focus Project: Shadow Fight 4
Responsibilities
- Develop and animate combat movesets.
- Provide feedback on the team's animations.
- Integrate into existing animation guidelines, enhance them, and effectively communicate them to the team to achieve the required quality.
- Represent the animation team in discussions about pipelines and workflow approaches, ensuring critical issues are resolved.
- Improve existing animations through feedback and constructive critique.
- Work with motion capture.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in animation for games or film.
- Excellent proficiency in Maya for animation.
- Strong understanding of animation principles and body mechanics.
- Experience animating for fighting games or a solid understanding of how to do it properly through industry knowledge and experience.
- Experience working with animation tools in Unity.
- Ability to provide feedback and set the animation vision for the project.
- Understanding of animation rigs and animation tools.
- Receptiveness to constructive criticism and an iterative development process.
- Strong communication skills.
- A deep interest in and familiarity with video games, animated films, and cinema.
Preferred Qualifications
- Rigging and skinning experience.
- Art-related higher education.
Working Environment
- The team utilizes the internal animation tool Cascadeur.
- Shadow Fight 4: Arena features real-time synchronous PvP alongside PvE, including a social system.
- Standard application response time is 7-10 days.