Remote Gameplay Animator - Entry-Level, Impactful

void; Cork; Remote; EUR 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

Job summary

VOID Interactive seeks an Associate Gameplay Animator to create high-quality, responsive character animations for locomotion, traversal, combat, and other gameplay systems. You’ll blend hand-keyed animation with motion capture data and implement assets directly in-engine.

Collaborate with designers, riggers, programmers, and fellow animators to balance visual quality with responsive gameplay. A portfolio demonstrates your skills and a passion for learning in a remote-first studio.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional production experience, or equivalent junior, internship, or game development experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Autodesk Maya, including animation layers and the Graph Editor.
• Strong understanding of realistic body mechanics, weight, timing, and character performance.
• An understanding of how animation supports responsive and engaging gameplay.
• A portfolio or demo reel demonstrating your character animation skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• A detail-oriented approach and willingness to receive feedback, continue learning, and develop technical skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a collaborative, remote-first team.

Responsibilities

• Creating high-quality character animations for locomotion, traversal, combat, and other gameplay systems
• Working with both hand-keyed animation and motion capture data
• Integrating and testing animations directly in-engine
• Working with animation state machines, blend trees, and animation layers
• Collaborating with designers, riggers, programmers, and fellow animators to balance visual quality with responsive gameplay
• Supporting motion capture shoots and assisting with motion capture data cleanup
• Testing animations in context and responding to feedback from the wider development team
• Assisting with troubleshooting animation and implementation issues under the guidance of senior team members
• Learning and working with proprietary tools and established animation pipelines
• Contributing to the continued improvement of animation workflows and overall gameplay quality

Skills

Character animation

Timing & weight

Communication

Remote collaboration

Tools

Autodesk Maya

MotionBuilder

Unreal Engine

Unity

Job description

VOID Interactive seeks an Associate Gameplay Animator to create high-quality, responsive character animations for locomotion, traversal, combat, and other gameplay systems. You’ll blend hand-keyed animation with motion capture data and implement assets directly in-engine.

Collaborate with designers, riggers, programmers, and fellow animators to balance visual quality with responsive gameplay. A portfolio demonstrates your skills and a passion for learning in a remote-first studio.