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Character Animator
Spirit Bomb is a new media studio and record label, producing virtual characters with a focus on music and narrative content, across digital platforms and IRL. Our studio has worked with artists ranging from The Weeknd to Flying Lotus to Kendrick Lamar, creating immersive and engaging audio- visual experiences for live events and digital media. We see many opportunities in the virtual artist space to envision new experiences for fans, and to create opportunities for musicians and visual artists.
As a Character Animator at Spirit Bomb, you will help bring our virtual characters to life by creating short-form character animation content with a focus on cinematic storytelling. You will work closely with our production and creative team to bring initial concepts to life while being an integral role in the content development pipeline.
Responsibilities
● Create short-form character animation sequences for handoff to environmental and FX teams.
● Direct, perform, and clean up motion capture shoots.
● Test, break, and provide feedback on character rigs during development.
● Refine existing and future character designs for animation, through constructive feedback and
technical and artistic solutions.
Required Qualifications
● Minimum of 3 years work experience in gaming, film/TV, or related industry.
● Substantial portfolio of work demonstrating character-based animation.
● Strong foundation in animation principles, the ability to reinforce storytelling through memorable
performances, and aptitude in a variety of animation styles.
● Ability to work in Maya and implement animations correctly in our Unreal engine pipeline, as well
as a thorough knowledge of Maya rigging and animation tools.
● An eye for animation, body movement, and analysis across different character types.
● Familiarity with implementing animations in Unreal Engine.
● Experience using motion capture technology such as Rokoko Studio or similar.
● Ability to take initiative and solve problems as they arise.
● Ability to work within tight deadlines, adapt to different workflows, and work within a lean startup
team environment to achieve company-wide goals.
Preferred Qualifications:
● Fluent in Unreal Engine (familiarity working with Blueprints and creating custom setups as needed for our characters).
● Scripting, and helping build tools to improve the efficiency of our pipeline.
● Understanding workflow between real time game engines to pre-rendered VFX.
● Familiarity with Zbrush, for making small edits or changes to characters as needed.
● Knowledge of rigging and weight-painting is a nice-to-have
Values:
● Open-minded to a variety of artistic styles, aesthetics, and viewpoints.
● Excited about shaping the medium of virtual artists, and creating new and joyful experiences for
fans and creators, across a variety of emerging and established platforms.
● Appreciation of healthy team dynamics in an inherently creative medium, and balancing
profitability goals with artistic values and priorities.
● Self-starter, entrepreneurial mindset in forecasting roadblocks and proactively anticipating creative solutions.
● Love of music, film, and new creative opportunities offered by technology.
At Spirit Bomb, we are highly cognizant that creativity and innovation emerge from diverse and motivated groups of unique individuals. We seek to create a safe and inspiring work environment, and give ourselves the best chance to create value for an abundance of individuals and communities.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, national origin, age, or any other status protected by law. Everyone is encouraged to apply.
Technical FX Artist
Spirit Bomb is a new media studio and record label, producing virtual characters with a focus on music and narrative content, across digital platforms and IRL. Our studio has worked with artists ranging from The Weeknd to Flying Lotus to Kendrick Lamar, creating immersive and engaging audio- visual experiences for live events and digital media. We see many opportunities in the virtual artist space to envision new experiences for fans, and to create opportunities for musicians and visual artists.
As a Technical / FX Artist at Spirit Bomb, you will help build tools and systems to be utilized in video and interactive content development. Your contributions will integrate with the larger content team to bring our characters’ stories and personas to life.
Responsibilities
● Program shaders, procedural systems, cinematics, and characters in Unreal Engine.
● Build custom tools and scenes for video and interactive content in Unreal Engine.
● Work between all departments (pre-production, environment, characters) on shared technology
● Support the content team in debugging and optimization of scenes.
● Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed
Required Qualifications:
● 3+ years work experience working in Unreal Engine and/or Substantial portfolio of work demonstrating
● Strong artistic background and content development skills such as, texturing lighting, vfx, or any other relevant areas.
● Experience using motion capture technology such as Rokoko Studio or similar.
● Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work with minimal supervision
● Ability to work within tight deadlines, adapt to different workflows, and work within a lean startup
team environment to achieve company-wide goals.
Preferred Qualifications:
● Experience with Niagra
● Scripting, and helping build tools to improve the efficiency of our pipeline.
● Understanding workflow between real time game engines to pre-rendered VFX.
● Experience with other 3D apps such as Houdini, Blender, Maya, etc.
● Experience with Character Animation
Values:
● Open-minded to a variety of artistic styles, aesthetics, and viewpoints.
● Excited about shaping the medium of virtual artists, and creating new and joyful experiences for
fans and creators, across a variety of emerging and established platforms.
● Appreciation of healthy team dynamics in an inherently creative medium, and balancing
profitability goals with artistic values and priorities.
● Self-starter, entrepreneurial mindset in forecasting roadblocks and proactively anticipating
creative solutions.
● Love of music, film, and new creative opportunities offered by technology.
At Spirit Bomb, we are highly cognizant that creativity and innovation emerge from diverse and motivated groups of unique individuals. We seek to create a safe and inspiring work environment, and give ourselves the best chance to create value for an abundance of individuals and communities.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, national origin, age, or any other status protected by law. Everyone is encouraged to apply.
Environment Unreal Generalist
Spirit Bomb is a new media studio and record label, producing virtual characters with a focus on music and narrative content, across digital platforms and IRL. Our studio has worked with artists ranging from The Weeknd to Flying Lotus to Kendrick Lamar, creating immersive and engaging audio- visual experiences for live events and digital media. We see many opportunities in the virtual artist space to envision new experiences for fans, and to create opportunities for musicians and visual artists.
As an Environment Artist / Unreal Generalist at Spirit Bomb, you will help build the worlds our virtual artists live in. You will work closely with our creative team to bring story concepts to life, and play a central role in the content development pipeline.
Responsibilities:
● Source and/or create models, and assemble scenes for both architectural and organic environments in Unreal Engine.
● Integrate final character animation and/or custom built FX into scenes.
● Build cinematic lighting and compose camera moves through scenes.
● Additional environmental or generalist responsibilities may be assigned as needed.
Required Qualifications:
● 3+ years experience in gaming, film/TV, or related industry modeling environments using UE.
● Substantial portfolio of work demonstrating environment design in Unreal Engine.
● Strong foundation in working with Sequencer, Blueprints, and creating custom setups in UE.
● Knowledge of modeling, UV mapping, and texturing assets for UE and cinematics in 3D app of
choice.
● Strong conceptual knowledge of design principles, real-world lighting, color theory, and
composition.
● Ability to take initiative and solve problems as they arise.
● Ability to work within tight deadlines, adapt to different workflows, and work within a lean startup
team environment to achieve company-wide goals.
Preferred Qualifications:
● Knowledge of a sculpting application such as Zbrush or similar.
● Substance Painter / PBR Texturing workflow experience.
● Scripting, and helping build tools to make pipeline for a small team more efficient.
● Understanding workflow between real time game engines to pre-rendered vfx.
Values:
● Open-minded to a variety of artistic styles, aesthetics, and viewpoints.
● Excited about shaping the medium of virtual artists, and creating new and joyful experiences for
fans and creators, across a variety of emerging and established platforms.
● Appreciation of healthy team dynamics in an inherently creative medium, and balancing
profitability goals with artistic values and priorities.
● Self-starter, entrepreneurial mindset in forecasting roadblocks and proactively anticipating
creative solutions.
● Love of music, film, and new creative opportunities offered by technology.
At Spirit Bomb, we are highly cognizant that creativity and innovation emerge from diverse and motivated groups of unique individuals. We seek to create a safe and inspiring work environment, and give ourselves the best chance to create value for an abundance of individuals and communities.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, national origin, age, or any other status protected by law. Everyone is encouraged to apply.