Junior 3D Animator

Role Overview: As a 3D Avatar Programmer, your main responsibility will be to coordinate with 3D artists to import avatar models into the runtime pipeline, ensuring correct rigs, animations, mouth/eye movement, shadows, and lighting. You will also develop and integrate avatar skin-selection mechanisms, implement lip-sync and facial animations, optimize performance for curved OLED displays, build tooling/scripts for avatar asset export, and collaborate with UI/App developers for avatar picker UI and state changes. Key Responsibilities: - Coordinate with 3D artists to import avatar models and ensure correct rigs, animations, and lighting - Develop and integrate avatar skin-selection mechanism - Implement lip-sync and facial animations tied to voice output - Optimize performance for curved OLED displays - Build tooling/scripts for avatar asset export - Collaborate with UI/App developers for avatar picker UI and state changes - Implement shadow/lighting behavior for avatar - Collaborate with device & connectivity team for avatar asset downloads and versioning - Define test cases for avatar skins, performance, and memory load - Maintain documentation for the avatar pipeline Qualification Required: - Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Game Development, Animation, or related field - 3+ years of experience in 3D programming or game/graphics development - Strong proficiency in Blender, Character Creator, VRoid Studio, Unity/Unreal - Proven experience in rigging, skinning, lip-sync animations, and 3D asset pipelines - Experience with embedded graphics/low-resource platforms - Good programming skills in C/C++/C# - Familiarity with mobile or embedded display constraints - Experience with asset versioning, remote asset loading, and performance profiling - Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail - Good communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams Note: This job is full-time and the work location is in Ahmedabad. Be prepared to relocate if necessary. Kindly provide your current and expected salary per month during the application process.,