3D Animator

💥 Bring Taliara’s Champions to Life!

Orbital Ignition Interactive is an indie mobile studio building bold, stylized, and strategy-driven experiences. Our flagship title, Taliara’s Rise, is a mobile tabletop-inspired game.

As a 3D Animator, you’ll be creating dynamic, stylized animations that capture the essence of our factions and gameplay—think exaggerated charm, fantasy swagger, and satisfying motion that pops on mobile.

You’ll work with the team to:

• Animate faction characters like the leafy Leafborn or hulking Stoneclad
• Create expressive idles, spell casts, dice rolls, and base-building sequences
• Collaborate with 3D artists and designers to ensure visual & mechanical synergy

✔ Stylized animations that feel responsive, punchy, and loaded with character

✔ Emotes, abilities, and reactions that deliver gamefeel across mobile devices

✔ Working closely with our game designers to hook animations into gameplay events

✔ Building out animation libraries for reuse, iteration, and polish

🌀 Create rigged animations for characters, objects, and effects

⚙️ Set up animation controllers and blend trees inside Unity

🎯 Collaborate with designers and VFX to ensure animations support game mechanics

📦 Help build modular animation kits for scalable production

🔁 Iterate based on gameplay testing and team feedback

Required: ✅ Strong understanding of animation principles (timing, exaggeration, squash/stretch)

✅ Experience with 3D animation software (Maya, Blender, etc.)

✅ Ability to implement and test animations in Unity

✅ A good eye for stylization and a feel for mobile-friendly readability

✅ Communicates clearly, works independently, and loves to iterate

Bonus Points: 🎲 Experience with fantasy or stylized art styles (Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, etc.)

🧙‍♂️ Familiarity with Unity Animator / Timeline

🎮 Previous game dev or mobile title contributions