Location: Full-time Remote position 

Salary Range: Commensurate with Experience & Skills

Role Description 

We are looking for an experienced Gameplay Animator to help bring our characters and creatures to life through expressive, responsive gameplay animation. Your reel should showcase strong gameplay animation fundamentals, including combat, locomotion, and creature animation, as well as a solid understanding of animation principles.

As a Gameplay Animator, you will work collaboratively with designers, engineers, and artists to create and implement a variety of in-game animations. You will also help establish animation workflows and contribute to maintaining a high-quality bar for gameplay animation across the team.

Responsibilities 

• Create high-quality hand-keyed animations for a variety of characters and creatures that support both visual style and gameplay feel.
• Collaborate closely with designers and engineers to iterate on and implement gameplay animations.
• Implement animation assets within Unreal Engine 5 animation systems, including state machines and blend spaces.
• Help maintain and evolve our animation pipeline and workflows.
• Review animation work with the team and provide constructive artistic and technical feedback.
• Contribute to maintaining a strong animation quality bar across the project.

Our Ideal Candidate… 

• Has 5+ years of experience creating gameplay animations for games.
• Demonstrates deep understanding of combat and locomotion animation, delivering responsive, readable gameplay across both stylized and realistic styles.
• Experience with Unreal Engine animation state machines and animation blueprints.
• Has professional experience working in Maya.
• Has experience developing or contributing to animation pipelines and systems.
• Communicates effectively and works well within a cross-disciplinary team.
• Takes a proactive and collaborative approach to problem solving.
• Plays and enjoys a variety of games.

Bonus Points For… 

• Experience animating creatures
• Contributing to shipping multiple game titles
• Basic scripting or technical animation knowledge

More about Robot

Robot Entertainment is an independent game studio founded in 2009, headquartered in Plano, Texas, and best known for creating the Orcs Must Die! franchise.  Robot employees work remotely and this role is open to anyone living within two hours of the US Central Time Zone, including those residing outside the United States. 

Robot offers excellent benefits, including:

• Medical, dental, and life insurance for you, your spouse, and family
• Competitive salaries and potential for equity participation
• Paid parental leave
• Ample vacation time plus official company closures for a week during the summer and three weeks during the Fall/Winter
• Support for continuing education
• Annual stipends for personal game purchases and home office improvements

We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming environment and encourage anyone interested to apply.

To Apply

Qualified responses should send us an email with a resume, cover letter, and portfolio/reel. Please indicate you are applying for the Gameplay Animator position.