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Howdy! The Big Hops team is growing and we need help making our characters more expressive with tech art and animation.

We’re a very small team, each wearing many hats, and we’re hoping to find someone similarly multi-faceted. The ideal candidate has strong opinions about game feel in character-action games and a lot of experience with 3D character art, animation, and hooking up their work in Unity through Mecanim and C# code. If you have additional experience in another area (like design, programming, or something else) that’s even better!

We strongly encourage people of color, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and non-binary people to apply. Luckshot Games is an equal opportunity workplace and welcomes everyone to our team.

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Responsibilities:

• Use existing Maya rigs to animate characters for gameplay, dialogue, and cutscenes.
• Improve the game feel and fidelity of our player character with animations, custom transitions, etc.
• Build on existing NPC authoring tools to improve fidelity and variety of NPCs in a cost effective way.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional experience using a 3D modeling kit (Maya preferred) to model and animate characters or creatures.
• Extensive experience using mecanim and C# code to control character animation.
• Familiar with the Unity editor, prefab, level design, scripting, and custom editor workflows.
• Great communication and collaboration skills.
• Willing to learn new workflows, self-motivated, curious.
• Detail-oriented, thoughtful, and aware of dependencies across systems and schedules

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Nice to Have:

• Interest in advanced movement games (Mario Odyssey, Mirror's Edge, etc) and emergent games (Spelunky, Zelda: BOTW).
• Strong opinions about character animation and game feel in modern and classic character-action games.
• Can build custom rigs for one-off characters and gameplay interactions.
• Experience developing for consoles, mobile, or VR platforms (especially optimization).
• Love for frogs and or 3D platformers.
• Diverse interests, especially outside video games.

Some Important Info:

• Most of the team is based in Austin, TX but this role is very open to remote work.
• This role is Full-Time (40 hrs / week), but is contract so doesn’t include salaried benefits.
• Pay is monthly and not hourly (so we can better include sick days and vacation time).
• Please include specific questions with your application!

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How to Apply:

To apply, fill out this form! And if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to chris@luckshotgames.com

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