Netflix Remote Jobs – Senior Animator & Rigger In Bonney

About the job

We’re looking for a talented and seasoned Senior Animator & Rigger to breathe life into the heroes, villains, creatures, and environments for a new R&D game project. Leveraging your technical and artistic skills paired with a phenomenal understanding of traditional and 3D animation techniques, you will partner with a multidisciplinary team of artists, designers, and engineers to create kinetically satisfying moment to moment gameplay and develop richly immersive settings.

We’re a small, scrappy team with big ambitions, and an obsession to create memorable game moments that leave players telling their own stories for years to come. We’re looking for new teammates who care deeply about the experiences they create and the people they make them with. Those who bias towards action and are energized by the learning that comes with bold experimentation at an agile pace. As a part of Netflix, we strive to hire the best and value integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration.

Now is an amazing time to join Netflix as we seek to entertain the world. We have over 200 million paid members in over 190 countries, and we won’t stop there.

Responsibilities Include

• Create character, object, and environment 3D rigs and animations using 3D content creation software (Maya, 3DS Max, or equivalent)
• Contribute to rapid prototyping and early visualization efforts by conceiving and creating real-time, block-in, 3D rig and animation assets
• Help establish and evolve our rigging and animation tools and pipeline
• Work with game designers to understand and fulfill the needs of gameplay
• Collaborate with teammates by providing and receiving creative/team feedback, plus’ing others’ creative contributions, and providing clear goals with intentionally desired outcomes

The Ideal Candidate

• Has shipped multiple games in an animation role
• Has expertise in:
• Using 3D Content Creation Software, such as Maya or 3DS Max
• Developing in modern engines, such as Unreal or Unity
• Building for multiple platforms: mobile, PC, consoles
• Utilizes outstanding critical thinking skills to translate gameplay needs into animations that work within specific in-game contexts
• Thrives as a member of a cross functional multidisciplinary team
• Communicates with authenticity, intention, and curiosity
• Gets excited by learning new skills, dashing to pitch in, even if this means flexing beyond this role’s core responsibilities if it can help us win
• Plays broadly across multiple games of varied genres
• Works effectively off site on shared projects

As part of the application process, please provide a portfolio link or work samples with your application so that we can review your work. Your work samples should demonstrate your skill and understanding of animation principles in the context of the animation of bipedal human figures and other organic forms – specifically how these principles can be used to enhance gameplay and in-game feel.