Job Summary
Want to help teleport enterprise collaboration in a 3D, cloud-based, virtual world? Want to push the boundaries of performance and transform the remote working experience? VirBELA (www.virbela.com) is a technology company that develops collaboration, learning, and assessment tools for major corporations like Amazon and eXp Realty, top business schools, and military applications for the United States Navy.
VirBELA envisions one world, achieving together. We bring our vision to life by offering virtual reality office experiences. The technology enables companies to grow and scale without the costs associated with brick-and-mortar offices and hire the best talent no matter where they may be located.
While our experience is novel, it's proven. Our largest client experienced over 1,600% growth in 3 years. Since adopting VirBELA instead of brick-and-mortar offices for its now remote workforce of 2,000+, it was named one of the Best Places to Work by Glassdoor in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
As a Character Artist at VirBELA you will be working on a cross-disciplinary team that includes software engineers, asset designers, organizational psychologists, corporate leaders, virtual world specialists, and domain experts.
Major Duties & Responsibilities:
Design and develop 3D characters for virtual worlds
Integrate and edit motion capture animations for use in Unity
Create new assets for developed rigs in Maya
Implement rigs in Unity for customizable avatars in a virtual environment
Create character models/geometry, texture maps, animations, and rigging
Support custom applications through modifications of existing assets
Desired Qualifications:
Bachelors of Arts and/or Game Design degree
3+ years Experience in 3D character modeling, rigging, and animation
Experience with relevant software systems such as Maya, 3DS Max, Blender, and ZBrush, MotionBuilder, etc.
Fully comfortable and independent with Maya's rigging tools and methodologies
Efficient and autonomous on rigging/skinning tasks
Ability to integrate and edit motion capture animations for use in Unity
Experience in working with real-time systems such as games and virtual worlds
VirBELA is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
