Hire the best 3D character animators

A 3D Character Animator is a specialized CGI artist who manipulates digital puppets (rigs) in a three-dimensional space to create performances for games or films. Responsibilities include:

• Animating run cycles, attacks, and idle states for video games.
• Cleaning up Motion Capture (MoCap) data to fix jitter or clipping.
• Animating complex facial rigs to deliver subtle cinematic acting.

3D Animators rely on high-end CGI software. Key entities include:

• Autodesk Maya (The absolute industry standard for 3D animation).
• Blender (Increasingly popular for indie games/studios).
• MotionBuilder for integrating animations into game engines.
• Forward and Inverse Kinematics (FK/IK) systems.

While a 3D Character Rigger builds the internal digital skeleton and controls (the puppet strings), a 3D Character Animator uses those controls to create the movement and acting (the puppeteer).