Role overview

Analog is seeking an Animator to create character and creature animation for real-time 3D, AR, and VR experiences. You will work as a hands-on individual contributor, animating characters that convey personality and performance within tight timeframes. Your work will be delivered into Unity or Unreal Engine and seen live in interactive environments rather than as rendered output.

Key responsibilities

Create high-quality keyframe animation for real-time interactive characters and creatures, emphasizing personality and performance.
Animate cycles, transitions, interactions, and individual performance moments to a polished final standard.
Prepare and export animation into Unity while working within engine performance budgets and technical constraints.
Partner with riggers to stress test rigs, provide feedback on controls and deformation, and support motion capture sessions including cleanup of captured data.
Collaborate with 3D artists and engineers to resolve animation dependencies and maintain consistency across animation sets.
Build reference libraries by studying live action and animal motion, and apply expert knowledge of timing, weight, spacing, arcs, posing, staging, anticipation, follow-through and appeal.
Maintain consistent naming conventions, file structures, frame ranges and export settings according to pipeline standards.

Requirements

Three to five years of professional experience working as a character or 3D animator.
Strong keyframe animation skills in Autodesk Maya.
A showreel demonstrating polished character or creature performance with clear evidence of your own contribution.
Solid command of animation principles including timing, weight, spacing, arcs, staging and appeal.
Experience delivering animation into Unity or Unreal Engine.
Comfort working with rigs and ability to raise rigging issues constructively.
Ability to take direction, iterate quickly and deliver to a high standard within production deadlines, with clear communication and collaborative approach.

What makes this role worth considering

You will work closely with riggers, 3D artists and engineers in a hands-on environment where your animation runs live in interactive experiences. This role emphasizes seeing your work deployed in real-time rather than archived as rendered sequences, offering immediate feedback on how your animation performs in its final context.