Animation Engineer - Toca Days
- Applications are considered on a rolling basis
- Stockholm
Do you want to be part of our most ambitious project, a friendly multiplayer world for children celebrating the excitement and quirkiness of everyday life?
As an Animation Engineer at Toca Days, you’ll be the first dedicated engineer in this position, and will be able to shape how we work with animation from a technical point of view. You will help our team to create a fun social multiplayer game without an open chat, and where animation plays a huge role in that.
On top of that, this is our first third-person 3D game, so we need someone who can work with our designers and animators to build solid animation systems, and make it easy for our creatives to implement and iterate on their work in-engine.
Self-Expression is at the core of our social gameplay. Animation and animation systems need to be easy to work with and produce, so we can minimize implementation efforts. This role will help fulfill this need.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll create animation systems and solutions that let kids communicate and play online, like implementing co-op emotes like high fives; setting up context aware locomotion systems that is easy for non-coders to tweak; implementing context aware systems for other means of traversal, like swimming, or riding skateboards or wheelchairs, etc.
You’ll collaborate with designers and animators to find the best real solution for their hopes and dreams, such as design state machines and blend trees and runtime animation retargeting.
You’ll build all these systems with the long game in mind; we are hoping that this game will live and be maintained for a long time, and will soon transition to being a live service.
You’ll share best practices with the team and spread general knowledge of animation systems and programming.
Skills & Requirements
Is this you?
You’ve worked in a similar position and have shipped a couple of 3D and multiplayer games before.
You’ve a strong understanding and experience of animation tools and techniques.
You’ve interest in coaching, knowledge sharing and mentoring.
This is us!
Toca Boca captures the spirit of play. We create digital toys and everyday products that are filled with fun and silliness that kids from any corner of the world can instantly relate to. Everything is designed from their perspective. We celebrate the diversity and quirkiness of their world and give them the freedom to play in ways that only they can.
Good to know!
This position is full time and based in our Stockholm studio with a hybrid working model (part office, part working from home). We apply a 6-month probationary period. You’ll need to be located in Sweden as we are unable to support relocation. As we’re an international company, with over 20 nationalities working here, and millions of users all over the world, you need to be fluent in English. Your application should therefore be in English.
About the company
Toca Boca develops digital games that capture the power of play and that are filled with fun and silliness that kids around the world can instantly relate to. Since our first product launch in 2011, we have released 46 apps that have been downloaded more than 444 million times the world over, making us the No. 1 mobile-first kids brand in the App Store. Our products focus on sparking kids’ creativity and imagination, creating opportunities for open-ended play.
With offices in Stockholm and San Francisco, Toca Boca is owned by Spin Master Corp., a global children’s entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties.
What We Look ForTOM
CollaborationAmazing ideas come from anywhere. We believe transparency, honesty and constructive communication are crucial for making great things.
PlayfulnessOpen. Curious. Creative. Leaving room for spontaneity is important to us for creating a fun and playful work environment.
Standards of QualityGood enough is never good enough. We strive to innovate and evolve our craft, and we’d never get there without working together toward our visions.
PassionWe all share in the excitement of making great things together. It's what drives us to do the things we do.
ResponibilityWe take ownership and pride in everything we do. From gender to accessibility — we are dedicated to inclusivity.
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