Animator

Schedule: Monday – Friday: 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST (US Central Time) • Saturday: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST (US Central Time)

Location: Remote (Work from anywhere!)

Contract: Part-time

Bring our spy to life.

We’re building a 3D multiplayer espionage RPG in Unity — a modern revival of a cult-classic that ran for over 20 years and still has a devoted community. We’re not pre-concept or hoping it works. We run public playtests with a live player base, we’re entering festivals (currently sitting in FIRST PLACE at Indie Game Festival), and we have a tight team of senior developers shipping real systems every single week.

We already have a professional character, a solid rig, and a foundation of animations — but right now our spy is limited to what we can buy off the shelf, and he feels generic because of it. We need an animator to take that foundation and make it bespoke: sneaking, taking cover, handling gadgets, shooting — the little things that make a spy actually feel like a spy. This is your chance to put a festival-selected, traction-backed studio on your portfolio and own the way our character moves.

As our Animator, you will:

Work On

Customizing and editing our existing animations so our spy feels unique — not off-the-shelf
Animating spy-game action: sneaking, taking cover, shooting, and gadget handling
Retargeting and blending library animations onto our rigged character
Wiring animations into Unity — blend trees, layers, and state machines

Who we are looking for?

Strong character animation fundamentals — weight, timing, posing, believable movement
Comfortable customizing and editing our existing animations — and equally welcome if you can key original animation from scratch; both are valued
Unity animation experience — Animator controllers, blend trees, layers, retargeting
A game and action sensibility — locomotion cycles, combat, stealth that reads clearly
You take direction and iterate on feedback without ego — the producer signs off on the work
You’re careful with our shared rig and project files

Nice to Have

Rigging and skinning experience (bones and weights) — a strong bonus
Online multiplayer game animation experience
A demo reel featuring game-ready action animation

The Schedule — Please Read

This is a part-time seat with set hours. You must be able to work this schedule reliably:

Monday – Friday: 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST (US Central Time)
Saturday: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST (US Central Time)

Why Join Us?

Proven concept — we’re past “will it work.” We run multi-hour public playtests on a stable build
Real traction — an existing player base waiting on every release
Festival momentum — currently leading Indie Game Festival, with more submissions in flight
A senior team worth learning from — you’ll be guided, not thrown in the deep end
Your name on a real, shipping title for your portfolio

This isn’t for you if you can only play canned clips as-is, or go quiet when you’re stuck. If you can take a foundation and make a character feel truly alive — we want to talk.