Minecraft Blockbuster YouTube Shorts Animator

Spawnpoint Media; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital entertainment company in Melbourne is seeking a talented Minecraft Animator to create engaging animations using the Vanilla style and other techniques. Candidates should have proficiency in Minecraft and skills in analyzing YouTube metrics. This role offers attractive remuneration, a KPI bonus program, and opportunities for career progression. Join a passionate team dedicated to creating family-friendly content that brings joy to children worldwide.

Benefits

Attractive Remuneration

Spawn Points KPI bonus Program

Training & Development

Career Progression

Qualifications

• Full understanding of vanilla and modded Minecraft.
• Experience with creating and animating custom models.
• Ability to meet and understand deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Animate vanilla and non-vanilla storyboards using Minecraft.
• Enhance provided scripts to improve animation quality.
• Analyze YouTube metrics for content improvement.

Skills

Proficiency in Vanilla Animation

Engagement-Enhancing Animation

Clean Style Animation

YouTube Analytics Analysis

Initiative and Script Enhancement

Tools

McHorse’s Blockbuster

Aperture Mod

Replay Mod

Job description

Who We Are:

Spawnpoint Media is a market leader in digital entertainment spanning gaming, lifestyle and real-life content. From humble beginnings over a decade ago, we are now the most watched Australian based YouTube gaming channel on the planet. We ideate, create, produce and publish family friendly content across several channels that total over 20 million subscribers, over 6 billion views and over 57,000 years of viewed content. We strive to maintain the soul, love, joy, and personality of youth in our content and are committed to our mission of leaving a lasting impact on families across the globe.

Why Work With Us?

🌳 Stability
⚖️ Work-Life Balance
🌟 Passionate Youth-Driven Team
🎉 Team Building Events
🚀 Competitive Salary

Who You Are:

Our team is seeking a talented and creative Minecraft Animator who can use McHorse’s Blockbuster and Aperture mods to animate vanilla and non-vanilla storyboards and scripts to bring them to life whilst integrating content that is relevant and up to date with the latest trends in Children’s, Minecraft, Internet, and Popular Culture.

Your Responsibilities and Skills:

• Vanilla Animation: Proficiency in animating in the "Vanilla" style, utilizing custom camera paths via Aperture and first-person perspective techniques to seamlessly blend with standard Minecraft gameplay, as exemplified in this example.
• Engagement-Enhancing Animation: Ability to animate in the "Vanilla" style while incorporating unrealistic and meme elements to amplify viewer engagement, as demonstrated in this example.
• Clean Style Animation: Expertise in animating in the "Clean" style, characterized by stylized, cartoon animation, ensuring visually appealing and distinctive content, as seen in this example.
• YouTube Analytics Analysis: Proficient analysis of key YouTube metrics and analytics, including Average View Duration (AVD), Click-Through Rate (CTR), Impressions, and Average View Percentage (AVP), to discern successful content elements and areas for improvement.
• Initiative and Script Enhancement: Demonstrated initiative in enhancing provided scripts and instructions, improving animation quality, camera angles, and adding additional background elements as "Easter Eggs" to augment viewer engagement and enjoyment.

Requirements:

• Full and in depth understanding of vanilla and modded Minecraft
• Experience and moderate understanding of McHorse’s Blockbuster and Aperture Mod
• Experience with creating and animating custom models
• Experience with animating facial expressions and rigs in Blockbuster.
• Ability to meet and understand deadlines.
• Ability to understand feedback and act on it.
• Preferable Additional Skills
• Experience using Replay Mod
• Experience with NPC mods in 1.16.5+ including CustomNPCs, CosmicNPCs, etc
• Experience with machinima filmmaking without Blockbuster in versions 1.16.5+

Spawnpoint Perks:

• Attractive Remuneration
• Spawn Points KPI bonus Program
• Training & Development
• Career Progression

Our Offer

If you’re excited to animate some of the most-loved content on the internet and bring smiles to millions of children across the globe; whilst working alongside a highly skilled and fun-loving team; passionate about all things YouTube and gaming, then what are you waiting for? We really love working here, and we think you will too! Apply now!