Job description
Timing: July/AugustDuration: Ongoing full-time / contract-to-hire
Hours per week: 40+
Location: metro Detroit (hybrid onsite preferred, but open to fully remote on ET hours)
Pay rate: $60+/hr DOE
Salary: $120K+ DOE
One of our health & wellness retail clients is looking for a 3D Designer / Animator to join their team for an exciting all-new position within their in-house creative team and multimedia/video department.
This 3D Designer / Animator will be responsible for helping create branded consumer facing videos and product rendering for the company's portfolio of brands and consumer electronics/products.
The 3D Designer / Animator must have an excellent eye for composition, color, and lighting, and be extremely skilled in 3D modeling, texturing, and rendering to develop 3D CAD models into photorealistic imagery and content that supports marketing campaigns, product launches and events.
Ideal 3D Designer / Animator candidates will have:
- 7-10+ years of 3D design, rendering, and animation experience within an agency, in-house creative/design team, or production/post-production studio
- BA degree in digital design or related field and experience using a wide versatility of skills and software (3D, animation, augmented reality, virtual production, motion graphics, compositing, particles, dynamics) and GPU rendering.
- Fully proficient with Cinema4D, Maya, CAD, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender, SolidWorks, Keyshot, etc.
- Proven experience handling 3D modeling, texturing, shading, lighting, animation, etc.
- Strong portfolio with examples of highly photo-realistic based texturing and lighting for a variety of products and environments.
- Passionate and knowledgeable about the future of the retail experience and the role 3D assets can play in AR/VR and other innovative digital experiences.
- Ability to focus while under pressure and agile to change
- Detail oriented with an excellent eye for composition, photo-realism, and lighting.
- Good understanding of model optimization for real-time performance.
- Ability to understand and produce work within existing brand standards and style guides.
- Understand design applications in traditional and emerging channels
- Anticipate problems and see how a problem and its solution will affect other projects, people or processes.
- Keen eye for detail and consistency, and willingness to craft the look of work to a high level.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills to work in a dynamic environment.
- Understand the power of good branding and visual storytelling to create loyal customers for life.
- Experience developing storyboards and concept sketches/renderings.
- Mature, self-motivated, resourceful
- Ability to adapt, take calculated risks, accept ambiguity, test, iterate, and pivot on ideas
- Ability to collect relevant data and draw conclusions for holistic decision-making
- Knowing one’s exact goals and targets, and how to achieve them, aided by the guidance of leaders
- Willingness to embrace the possibilities of the digital age by integrating multiple perspectives
Job Responsibilities:
- Create and design storyboards for digital media formats
- Take existing product designs and CAD models, and expand details as needed
- Create custom models of different product categories
- Animate assets to create compelling storytelling videos
- Edit and comp shots into other video media or edits
- Use 3D modeling, texture, mapping, lighting and other techniques to create photo realistic product images, graphics, visual effects, and animations
- Model, UV and texture a variety of 3D assets, both hard surface and organic
Assemble, light and render 3D content for both offline, digital, and interactive/real time
- Assist with animation and motion graphics as needed
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with product designers, photographers, and art directors to meet high quality output needs and to elevate aesthetics of a project
- Adhere to deadlines, and manage time across multiple projects
*Candidates local to metro Detroit preferred for onsite work
**Open to fully remote candidates, but must be able/willing to work on ET hours
***Eligible for full health benefits through 24 Seven (if contract-to-hire)
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