Mid/Senior 3D Animator

Scopely is looking for a Mid/Senior 3D Animator to join the WWE Champions team in Bangalore! At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily. WWE Champions is our ultimate and unique RPG puzzle match game featuring WWE superstars and legends across mobile and PC platforms. WWE Champions is the most downloaded WWE game to date, with a highly engaged and passionate community. What You’ll Do We’re looking for a Mid/Senior 3D Animator to help bring the biggest WWE Superstars to life in WWE Champions. In this role, you’ll create high-quality, expressive character animations that capture the unique personality, style, and signature moves of WWE Superstars while delivering responsive and engaging gameplay experiences. You’ll collaborate closely with character artists, tech art, design, engineering, and production to develop polished, game-ready animations that seamlessly integrate into the game. This is a hands-on role for an animator with a deep understanding of character performance, gameplay animation, and technical implementation, who can take animations from initial blocking through final polish and engine-ready delivery. Create gameplay animations (combat, locomotion, reactions, traversal) using keyframe animation and motion capture, with strong posing, body mechanics, timing, and character performance Clean up, retarget, and polish motion capture animations into responsive, production-ready gameplay sets, balancing visual quality with in-engine feel Create or modify character rigs, transfer skin weights, and prepare animation-ready assets using HumanIK or similar rigging systems Work with Gameplay Designers and Engineers on move sets, hit reactions, and animation-driven gameplay systems (blend trees, state machines, root motion) Work closely with cross-functional teams, adapt quickly to feedback, and deliver high-quality animations within the constraints of a live-service, licensed IP production Prepare, export, and validate animation assets (FBX) for Unity, and help fix rigging, skinning, and pipeline issues as they come up What We’re Looking For 5+ years of professional experience as an animator in games, with a focus on gameplay/combat animation Shipped at least one title with significant gameplay animation work (fighting, action, or sports genres a strong plus) Strong understanding of rigging and skinning, ideally in Autodesk Maya Strong understanding of mocap data, including cleanup and retargeting for gameplay. Experience with facial and cinematic animation Proficient in Autodesk Maya, plus at least one additional 3D animation package such as MotionBuilder, 3ds Max, or similar Experience with HumanIK or similar rigging/retargeting systems Good understanding of body mechanics, weight, timing, and readability under gameplay constraints (input lag, blending, canceling) Experience preparing, exporting, and validating FBX assets for real-time engines, ideally Unity, including familiarity with animation state machines and blend trees Good collaboration and communication skills working with Design, Engineering, and Art A demo reel or portfolio showing shipped or production-quality gameplay animation work Bonus Have experience with AI-assisted animation tools in a production pipeline About Scopely Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play. Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come. Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play. Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/. Notice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official website and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @scopely.com. Should you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact recruiting@scopely.com. 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