# 3D Animator (Short Term)

**Company**: Roblox
**Location**: San Mateo, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: $9,103—$11,152 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8054257?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3dc6c199-ed1

## Description

We are seeking a talented Senior 3D Animator to join our team at Roblox for a 6-month engagement. You will focus on creating high-quality, foundational character animations for the Roblox platform,specifically basic ability and locomotion sets that bring avatars to life with polish and personality.

You will:

- Create and refine a suite of standard locomotion and ability animations, including idle poses, walk, run, sprint cycles, jump, land, fall animations, and other basic movement/ability actions as needed

- Deliver clean, weighty, and expressive animations optimized for Roblox's avatar system (R15 preferred)

- Iterate quickly based on feedback from animation leads, designers, and engineers

- Export animations properly for Roblox Studio integration (using compatible formats and best practices)

- Use SyncSketch (or similar) for review and approval workflows

You have:

- Strong experience in character animation, with a focus on creating believable, game-ready locomotion and action animations

- Excellent acting skills through motion,conveying emotion, weight, timing, and personality in movement

- Proficiency in FACS-based facial animation (Facial Action Coding System) or equivalent high-quality facial rigging/expression work

- Expert-level skills in Autodesk Maya for animation production and Tools

- Familiarity with SyncSketch (or comparable online review/approval tools)

- Proven track record creating animations for video games (mobile, PC, or console experience a plus)

- Strong sense of timing, weight, anticipation, follow-through, and polish in game animation principles

## Skills

### Required
- character animation
- Autodesk Maya
- FACS-based facial animation
- SyncSketch
- video game animation

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Source: [Apply at careers.roblox.com](https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8054257?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)