3D Anime Artist + Animator
Listed on 2026-09-20
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Entertainment & Gaming
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Creative Arts/Media
3D Anime Artist + Animator
Nova Forge Studios
Job Type: Freelance
Location:
Remote
Work Type:
Remote
Date Posted:
Sep 16, 2026
Salary Compensation: $5,000-$8,000 one-time
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Job DescriptionAbout the Company
Nova Forge Studios is a small team in Tampa, Florida building tools for tabletop and trading card game players, created to replace the patchwork of apps players juggle to play with friends.
About the Role
Nova Forge Studios is hiring a contract 3D artist to own its stylized asset pipeline end-to-end, from originating 2D concepts through modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating in 3D, delivered as pre-rendered animation.
- Originate 2D concept art for the main app character and new in-app assets
- Build the main character's hero package: model, texture, and rig in 3D, including a facial expression system
- Deliver three-view design sheets, an expression set, and pose studies that anchor the catalog's canon
- Author microinteraction, emote, and hero-object animation sets
- Render and export shipped animation as flipbook loops (animated WebP) within published frame and duration budgets, with frame counts recorded per loop
- Ship a designed static-settle frame for every animated piece as a first-class reduced-motion deliverable
- Deliver to file standards, including separated render layers where specified plus editable masters (3D scenes and layered 2D files)
- Keep masters migration-ready with sensible topology, named rig controls, and clip organization a future real-time pipeline could consume without rework
- Mid-level experience across 3D modeling, texturing, and character modeling
- Facial rigging and animation capability, including expression systems
- 2D and 3D animation skills plus illustration for originating concepts
- Ability to deliver pre-rendered animation, not engine-locked output - Unreal Engine and Unity workflows or packages are not acceptable deliverables
- Original design work only
Compensation
USD $5,000 - $8,000, one-time project fee.
Location
Remote. The listing is open to applicants based in Japan, the United States, or Argentina.
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