3D Artist

We are looking for a few different candidates and your demo reel needs to showcase excellent skills that fall into one or more of our key areas:

• Technical Artist
  • Technical and robotics animation work
  • Strong technical rigging capabilities
  • Technical understanding of building and optimizing models and scenes
  • Create rigs and tools for other artists to use
  • Help debug problematic scenes and pipeline issues
  • Showcase previous work with hard surface models, robotics, and CAD models
  • Great generalist skills
  • Showcase hyper- and photoreal rendering skills
• 3D Motion Designer
  • Showcase great use of 3D motion design, flow, timing and beat
  • Strong sense of Art Direction
  • 2D and storyboarding skills a solid plus
  • Be able to tell a story with visuals and strong editing skills
  • Confident use of design, colors, and composition
  • Showcase excellent understanding of animation principles
  • Able to think outside the box and showcase ideas in abstract and visually interesting ways
• Houdini 3D Generalist
  • Show high class texture and lighting work and different styles
  • Showcase visual effect and simulation work, particularly fluids, dynamics, and particles
  • Environment building and use of proceduralism
  • Understanding of pipeline and proper movement geometry between software packages
  • Showcase development and use of artist friendly HDAs
  • Showcase good use of camera and animation
  • High end composition and editing work

You will be joining an agile, full-service marketing team. We tackle fun, challenging projects, and maintain creative control throughout the process. This position is full-time, with the possibility of remote or hybrid options. We look forward to reviewing a portfolio of your current work.

In this role, you will :

• Take a key role in our motion and animation team
• Communicate directly with our Brand, Project Managers, and Engineers
• Help produce both technical and creative marketing animations and content
• Help bring technical concepts into visual styles
• Interpret storyboards and art direction and apply it through motion
• Work collaboratively with a cross-functional team of creatives
• Develop concepts and final, polished artwork for marketing campaigns and tradeshow events, informed by research, brand positioning, and business objectives
• Work well individually and as a part of our animation team

• Edit for errors to produce accurate, high-quality work
• Follow best practices for file and asset management in a shared server environment
• Continue to evolve skills and technique

What you will need:

• Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Communication/Fine Art, Marketing, or related discipline
• Experience with mechanical animation, motion design or advertisement animation
• Current showreel displaying 3D and 2D animation capabilities, colors, composition, motion, and flow

• Current portfolio displaying photoreal 3D renders
• Excellent generalist skills in one or more of our major DCCs, Houdini, 3ds Max or C4D.
• Experience and knowledge of V-Ray, Redshift 3D and/or Karma.
• Experience with Thinkbox Deadline a plus
• Excellent composition and editing skills using After Effects, Nuke or similar software.
• Technical knowledge and experience with CAD models
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant professional experience

• Skilled at multitasking across multiple projects
• Showcase great understanding of animation principles and shot-to-shot transitions
• Ability to conceptualize and communicate visually with strong composition skills
• Ability to create and conceptualize strong styles and art direction
• Ability to understand and implement brand standards
• Ability to absorb and execute artistic direction/feedback
• A strong will to learn and grow as a 3D Artist

• Keen attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills with excellent time management
• Awareness of current design trends

We would also love it if you had:

• Experience with video production and design
• Experience with Unreal Engine or other real-time content
• Experience with video editing and sound design