3D Gameplay Animator

Demiurge Studios

Gameplay Animator creating beautiful animations for original open world IP projects at Demiurge. Collaborating with the team to define animation style from production to launch.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $77,000 - $129,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Unreal Engine

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support, collaborate, and innovate solutions to improve gameplay readability, storytelling and design mechanics using animation with lean direction and support.
A strong understanding of authoring and implementing key-frame animation for characters, creatures, and other assets.
A gameplay-first focus. The ability to rapidly prototype and iterate on an animation to get the perfect gameplay fee.
Champion Character, Controls, and Camera principals and apply them to both 1st and 3rd person views.
Created and maintained animation workflows, pipelines, and processes for first and/or third person action games (preferably shooters) using Maya/Max/MotionBuilder, and implemented them in Unreal.
A knack for creating and maintaining animation documentation.
A desire to share your techniques and mentor folks.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience setting up character and facial rigging.
Unreal expertise including anim blueprints, montages, and overall animation workflow
Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
Eager to try new tools and tech such as local mo-cap and the latest Unreal tech.
Self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to operate within an agile, fast-paced, and sometimes ambiguous environment.
3+ years game industry employment and at least 1+ shipped titles. We’d love to see your portfolio!

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work environment
Generous PTO program including vacation days, sick days, and holidays. Earn-as-you-go plan that rolls over year to year, offering flexibility as well as the last week of December the studio closes to recharge
A variety of medical benefits with PPO options that start on your first day of employment
Vision and Dental benefits
Health Savings Account (HSA) - Available if you select a High Deductible Healthcare plan
Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (HC & DC FSA)
401K Partial Match
Commuter Reimbursement Program for hybrid employees
Tuition reimbursement promoting lifelong learning
Referral bonuses
Bonus plan
So. Many. Games. - Access to our huge game library!

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Hard Skills & Tools

key-frame animationcharacter riggingfacial rigginganimation workflowsanimation pipelinesanimation documentationanim blueprintsmontagesUnreal EngineMaya

Soft Skills

interpersonal skillswritten communicationoral communicationmentoringself-starterentrepreneurial mindsetagile environmentcollaborationinnovationrapid prototyping