3D Animation Programmer

Key Responsibilities :

• Coordinate with 3D artists to import avatar models (Blender / CC / VRoid) into our runtime pipeline (embedded / Linux or MCU maybe) ensuring correct rigs, animations, mouth / eye movement, shadows, lighting.
• Develop and integrate avatar skin-selection mechanism : load / swap skins dynamically, manage assets (textures, meshes, shaders) via a GUI Resource Pack system.
• Implement lip-sync and simple facial / mouth animations tied to voice output (TTS) — sync audio playback to mouth / viseme frames.
• Optimise performance for curved OLED display : low latency transitions, memory / bandwidth constraints, GPU / embedded limitations.
• Build tooling / scripts or plugin workflows (Blender, CC, or custom) to export and pre-process avatar assets to our product build pipeline.
• Work with UI / App developer for avatar picker UI, state changes (voice_style, avatar_skin) and persistent settings; ensure the avatar changes reflect on device / panel in realtime.
• Implement shadow / lighting behaviour for avatar (e.g., responsive to device-cam or ambient lighting) if applicable.
• Collaborate with device & connectivity team : ensure avatar asset downloads via OTA or remote config, verify fallback if resource missing, handle versioning.
• QA collaboration : define test cases for avatar skins, performance, memory load, asset updates, state persistence across restarts / firmware updates.
• Maintain documentation for the avatar pipeline : import / export guidelines, naming conventions, rig / mesh standards, asset size budgets.

Required Skills & Experience :

Skills Required

skinning, Rigging, C, Blender, Unity, unreal