Company: Neon Badger

Location: Remote, Australia - Sydney-based preferred

Type: Contract, 3-4 weeks starting ASAP

The role

We're a creative technology / games studio running several projects in parallel and need an experienced 3D generalist to drop in and support the art team across whatever's in front of us. We’re looking for someone with a broad skillset, one week you might be fixing animation timing, the next you're building and lighting an environment in Unreal.

Although remote you'd be jamming with our existing art team rather than working off a ticket queue on your own, we are after someone who can pick up an in-flight scene, read the intent, and push it forward without every step spelled out.

What you'll be doing

• Environment builds and set dressing in Unreal Engine 5
• Lighting and look development
• Camera work and sequencer / cinematic setup
• Animation tweaks and cleanup
• Texturing in Substance Painter / Designer
• Retopology and UV work
• General art support - whatever unblocks the team that week

What you need

• Unreal Engine 5 - confident building, lighting and iterating in-editor
• Maya - modelling, UVs, retopo, animation cleanup
• Substance Painter
• Mid to senior level experience: you've shipped or delivered real projects and can work unsupervised
• Comfortable switching tasks and disciplines week to week
• Based in Australia, or working reliably in AEST/AEDT hours

Nice to have

• Control Rig experience in Unreal
• Unreal material authoring - layered materials, material functions, shader work
• VFX - Niagara, or equivalent real-time effects experience
• Google drive workflow and Version control experience (we use diversion)

Hardware

A lot of our scenes are heavy, so you'll need a machine that can handle them:

• GPU with 16GB+ VRAM (RTX 4080 or equivalent; 24GB preferred)
• 64GB RAM recommended
• Fast local SSD with room for large project files
• Stable connection for pulling multi-GB builds

How to apply

Send an email with the following :

1. Showreel or portfolio - with a breakdown of what you personally did on each shot or asset
2. CV
3. Your day rate and weekly availability

We'll be reviewing as they come in, so earlier is better.

We're a small team and we read everything. If your reel is strong but light on one of the areas above, apply anyway and tell us where you're strongest.