Senior Technical Animator: Unity/Blender Rigging

WorkinGames; København; Hybrid; DKK 420,000 - 620,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch buffet

Home-office budget

Relocation assistance

Job summary

SYBO, the mobile games studio behind Subway Surfers, invites a Technical Animator to join our Copenhagen team. You will own animation from concept to in-game, collaborating with a driven art team to push the bar on quality and technical excellence.

Based in Copenhagen, you will work with Unity and Blender to deliver expressive, production-ready animations while balancing performance on mobile devices. Relocation support and a modern studio with meals and benefits are provided.

Qualifications

• Solid foundation in character animation, demonstrated via portfolio/showreel.
• Strong understanding of core animation principles: timing, weight, posing, silhouettes, spacing and locomotion.
• Experience with Blender and Unity; able to adapt to the studio's pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Create expressive, production-ready stylised gameplay animations for characters and features on a regular cadence.
• Translate creative direction into clear animation choices and diagnose/improve the animation craft.
• Implement animations in Unity and fix animation-related issues in collaboration with the Technical Artist.
• Create and maintain character rigs, skinning and weight painting, including secondary-motion setups.
• Own the animation workflow and collaborate on pipeline tools and technical solutions.
• Balance animation quality with performance constraints of a live mobile game.
• Plan and estimate animation work, communicate risks early and contribute to briefs and production planning.

Skills

Character animation

Animation timing

Cross-functional collaboration

Independent work

Strong portfolio

Tools

Blender

Unity

Job description

SYBO, the mobile games studio behind Subway Surfers, invites a Technical Animator to join our Copenhagen team. You will own animation from concept to in-game, collaborating with a driven art team to push the bar on quality and technical excellence.

Based in Copenhagen, you will work with Unity and Blender to deliver expressive, production-ready animations while balancing performance on mobile devices. Relocation support and a modern studio with meals and benefits are provided.