Company: Octo Games

  Octo Games is an international gamedev studio legally headquartered in the Netherlands, specializing in adult visual novels and story-driven commercial PC games for Steam. We are seeking a 3D Character Animator for a full-time, permanent position operating on a standard 5/2 shift pattern. As pioneers in decentralized game development, our studio operates on a permanent, borderless remote model, making this one of the premier remote jobs for artists looking to work from absolutely anywhere in the world. To qualify for this position, applicants must possess a minimum of 6+ months of professional game development experience alongside expert-level mastery of Blender, with a particular emphasis on its Dope Sheet, Graph Editor, and Non-Linear Animation (NLA) editor. Candidates must showcase an advanced understanding of physical body mechanics, real-world weight distribution, seamless loop cycles, and expressive facial staging. This role offers competitive compensation commensurate with portfolio strength, alongside comprehensive paid vacation and sick leave. Our selection process involves an initial portfolio review followed by a mandatory, unpaid practical technical test assignment. Qualified professionals looking to secure stable, impactful remote jobs can apply directly through this job board or route their resume and showreel via Telegram to @plnkls_octo_games. Remote Jobs Overview : 3D Character Animator Attribute Details Company Name Octo Games Position Title 3D Character Animator Job Type Full-Time, Permanent (5/2 Shift Pattern) Location Global Remote (Work from anywhere) Corporate Residency International Studio (Headquartered in the Netherlands) Salary Range Competitive / Commensurate with experience & portfolio strength Core Technical Stack Blender (Expertise in NLA / Non-Linear Animation editor required) Minimum Experience 6+ months of professional/commercial game development experience Primary Project Focus Adult Visual Novels and story-driven commercial PC games for Steam Key Requirements Strong grasp of body mechanics, weight, loop animations, and expressiveness Selection Component Portfolio review followed by a mandatory practical technical test assignment Application Channels Direct job board submission or via Telegram to @plnkls_octo_games About Octo Games Octo Games is an established international game development studio legally headquartered in the Netherlands. Since our founding in 2017, we have dedicated ourselves to crafting, publishing, and sustaining premium commercial PC titles tailored specifically for the global Steam audience. Over nearly a decade of continuous operational growth, our studio has engineered, optimized, and deployed an expansive catalog exceeding 200 software releases, earning an exceptionally loyal, highly active international player base. Octo Games core creative focus centers on Adult Visual Novels and deeply immersive, story-driven gaming experiences. At Octo Games, we treat interactive storytelling as an elite design discipline. Our design philosophy dictates that every individual frame, environmental layout, and character performance must serve a grander narrative purpose—heightening environmental atmosphere, advancing complex character development, and driving profound emotional player engagement. We operate entirely via a highly structured, globally decentralized remote workspace model. This allows us to bring together exceptional technical minds and creative specialists from all corners of the globe. By stripping away redundant corporate bureaucracy, we maintain an incredibly agile, responsive production ecosystem. We make critical architectural and design decisions rapidly, actively celebrate individual developer initiative, and empower every single team member to exert direct, visible influence on the final retail product. The Project Ecosystem As a 3D Character Animator joining our production pipeline, you will step away from purely theoretical exercises or unreleased indie prototypes. You will immediately integrate into active, well-funded commercial lifecycles possessing built-in market validation, guaranteed release tracks, and prominent visibility across the global Steam marketplace. Our titles rely heavily on the fidelity and nuance of our character assets. In the storytelling genre, players spend hundreds of hours interacting with our digital cast. Your animation work will directly dictate the commercial viability and artistic triumph of our upcoming production slate. To view our established track record and get a precise feel for our visual standards, product scope, and narrative tone, we invite all prospective applicants to explore our public developer profile: Position Purpose & Role Impact Octo Games is seeking a technically proficient, artistically expressive 3D Character Animator to join our production team. In this role, your primary objective is to elevate our 3D character models from static meshes into living, breathing personalities capable of transmitting subtle emotional undercurrents, physical flexibility, and distinct charm. For top-tier talent scanning the market for flexible remote jobs, this position offers the rare opportunity to work on highly successful commercial titles while maintaining absolute geographical freedom. Within the narrative systems designed by Octo Games, character animation is never treated as a trivial aesthetic addition or a simple technical checkbox. Instead, movement is leveraged as a fundamental extension of a character’s internal psychology, a critical driver of seasonal scene moods, and the absolute cornerstone of the player’s emotional journey. If you are evaluating creative remote jobs to find a studio that truly respects the narrative weight of your craft, we want to recruit an animator who looks beyond simple structural interpolation and instead focuses on the weight, rhythm, and expressive prose of human and stylized motion. Core Duties & Responsibilities The selected candidate will take ownership of the daily character animation pipeline, executing tasks that bridge technical preparation with high-end creative performance. Your day-to-day operations will encompass the following vital tasks: 1. High-Fidelity Animation Creation Author, polish, and export expressive character animations that align perfectly with the creative director’s storyboards, script requirements, and structural style guides. Develop distinct movement vocabularies for various characters, ensuring their personalities are immediately recognizable through their physical habits, postures, and gestures. 2. Keyframe Manipulation & Curve Optimization Demonstrate mastery over keyframe placement, animation curves, and spatial interpolation within a 3D environment. Meticulously refine motion curves to avoid mechanical or robotic artifice, ensuring fluid, organic, and physically accurate movement transitions. Incorporate an advanced grasp of comedic and dramatic timing, spacing, ease-in, and ease-out principles to heighten scene impact. 3. Loop Animation Architecture Design, build, and optimize seamless idle loops, cyclical environmental interactions, and recurring situational behaviors. Ensure that loop boundaries are completely invisible to the player, eliminating any jarring frame pops, structural resets, or clip clipping. 4. Non-Linear Animation (NLA) … Read more