3D Artist & Animator (Stylized & Comedy)

Proxima • San Francisco, CA

2d • Remote

About The Position

Proxima Studio is seeking a 3D Artist & Animator with a cartoonist’s sensibility to create and animate expressive, lovable, comedic characters and help establish a signature art style for the studio’s next game. The role bridges high-level artistic vision with hands-on 3D asset creation and direct Unity integration. The studio describes its team as small, fast, and scrappy, and values creative ownership, rapid prototyping, and the ability to establish a cohesive visual language.

Requirements

• A strong understanding of visual storytelling, pose clarity, and physical comedy, prioritizing function and expression over photorealism.
• End-to-end expertise in stylized modeling, texturing, rigging, and animation using Blender or an equivalent tool.
• Experience setting up character prefabs, rigs, and animation states in Unity.
• Experience with rigging, rig manipulation, and animation blending.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with procedural animation, such as procedural targeting or inverse kinematics (IK).
• Unity C# scripting experience to connect animations independently.

Responsibilities

• Design and build low-poly, stylized characters with bold silhouettes, strong comedic expression, and immediate visual readability.
• Support character rigging and animation, including assistance with procedural animations.
• Import, configure, and optimize art assets directly in Unity.
• Establish the game’s overall art style, palettes, guidelines, and comedic visual language.
• Ensure the characters and game world have a unified visual style.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed