3D Animator

3D Technical Animator at Hidonix Inc.

Location: Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

Employment Type: Full Time

Start Date: ASAP

Salary: 75-80K Annually

Benefits: Full comprehensive health package

Technical Animator Job Description (Unity Focused)

The Technical Animator serves as a vital link between art and engineering, responsible for developing and maintaining the technical animation infrastructure that supports scalable, high-performance content creation.

This role focuses on real-time performance and high-quality rigging and animation systems for optimized mixed reality experiences using Apple Vision Pro (visionOS).

Required:

• High-quality rigging and animation workflows for optimized mixed reality experiences (motion-capture animation with some minor keyframe editing or hand-keyframing)
• Cleaning foot sliding, jitter, clipping, or loop animations cleanly; re-targeting animations as needed
• Unity 5 or 6 knowledge, including proficiency in integrating character rigs and animations into engine
• Proven ability to build and maintain custom rigs for realistic characters and props in Autodesk Maya (joints, bones, controls, deformers, and skinning), with strong knowledge of IK/FK systems, weight painting, and blend shapes

Preferred:

• Knowledge of motion capture workflows
• Familiarity with URP pipelines and version control systems such as Perforce
• Additional Unreal Engine 5 experience
• An understanding of clean character topology workflows for proper animation deformation (experience collaborating with 3D artists)

Nice to Have

• Additional Unreal Engine 5 experience, including knowledge of Metahuman and Advanced Skeleton workflows
• Knowledge of creating rigs utilizing photogrammetry scan pipelines (collaborating with 3D artists on the team who handle workflows using tools such as Wrap3D, Reality Scan, Maya, ZBrush, and Substance Painter / Designer)
• Cloth simulation experience
• Physics-based animations (ragdoll, soft-body, or physics blend systems)
• Experience with VFX animation systems (Particle System, VFX Graph, Niagra)
• Basic knowledge of lighting systems and light baking (URP, Lumen, Megalights)
• Familiarity with procedural generation tools (PCG)
• URP shaders; Substrate materials
• Experience with AI tools that improve efficiency

Why Join Hidonix

• Collaborative environment
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• Opportunities for growth as the company expands.
• Supportive, positive work environment

Other requirements

• Must be a US Citizen or valid green card holder
• Must be commuting distance of Los Angeles, CA