3D Character Animator (PC/Console, UE5)

Nekki is a game development studio with over 20 years of experience that creates games for mobile, PC, and consoles, focusing on product quality and player experience. Its Shadow Fight series and Vector have been downloaded over 1 billion times, and it is building new titles, including SPINE and Fight Me. SPINE is a third-person beat’em’up made with Unreal Engine 5 and centered around cinematic gun-fu shootouts.

• Animate characters, mainly locomotion, parkour, and various stunts
• Work with motion capture

• Strong understanding of animation principles
• 2+ Years of experience creating character animation for games, film, or television
• Good knowledge of Maya
• Strong body mechanics and action animation skills, including walking, running, jumping, and stunts
• Good understanding of animation rigs and common animation workflows and tools, such as animBot and center of mass
• Openness to feedback and understanding of the iterative process
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interest in video games and animated films
• Fluent communication in Russian

Nice to have:

• experience setting up locomotion systems in Unity or Unreal Engine, rigging and skinning skills, understanding of Python/MEL, an art-related education