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We are a mobile game company based in both Helsinki and Berlin creating world-class entertainment, by building a portfolio of hit games, while having fun with it. Since our launch in 2020, our first chart-topping game Merge Mansion has been entertaining over 50 million players worldwide, and we have grown into a team of over 200.
Our mission is to entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades, with our games, and also through our creative marketing, community, and beyond.
We’re ordinary people crafting extraordinary games with passion and ambition, united by our culture of trust, psychological safety and wellbeing.
Are you a talented Game Animator up for pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling in our hit game, Merge Mansion?
Ready to join one of Europe's fastest growing game companies?
If yes, Metacore could be the right place for you, to help us bring life into the Merge Mansion Universe through engaging and visually captivating animations. You will join Merge Mansion’s central Art-team and collaborate closely with art, design and marketing teams.
Responsibilities
Game Animator plays a key role in creating engaging and visually captivating animations to enable us to bring Merge Mansion’s renovating gameplay into a new level. In practice, this means (at least) the following:
- Lifting the yard and Mansion renovation animations to a new level
- Implementing animations and VFX in Unity, and optimizing for mobile devices
- Bring life and excitement to features, gameplay and UI through animation and vfx
- Collaborating closely with the art, design, and marketing team to bring our games to life through exciting visual effects and UI animations
Requirements
Here are some of the key skills and experience you should already have when joining Metacore as a Animator:
- Great understanding of motion principles
- Several years of experience in mobile game projects working as an Animator
- Proficiency in visual effects and animation software such as Blender
- Solid understanding of animation techniques, including characters, props, VFX and UI for mobile games
- Knowledge of narrative storytelling and the ability to bring a story to life through animations
- Knowledge of visual effects pipeline and implementation in Unity
- Solid understanding of technical requirements and optimisation techniques to fit various devices
- Excellent communication and organizational skills to effectively communicate with team members and stakeholders.
In addition to these, it would be nice but not mandatory for you to have these as well:
- Scripting skills
- Experience with VFX softwares such as After Effects
- Experience with DoTween
Basics
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Relocation: Relocating to Finland expected, full support provided
- Hybrid work: Mix of office and remote work
- Working language: English
