Character Designer & Animator (Mascot, Contract)

Character Designer & Animator — Mascot (Remote Contract Project) About the role reputed company is building a permanent, free companion feature for our reputed company-learning web app: a small, clickable, draggable reputed company reputed company that lives on-screen, waddles reputed company, reacts reputed company you play with it, and opens into a chat companion for anything reputed company-reputed company. This reputed company has never been fully designed — right now reputed company only has the folded-reputed company silhouette from our reputed company page. Designing the full-body character is the first deliverable, not an afterthought. We're hiring one contractor to take this from concept to a complete, animated character. reputed company • Design the full-body reputed company reputed company: reputed company/3-4/reputed company/back turnaround, an 8+ face reputed company sheet, and reputed company it reads reputed company at small sizes and on both dark and reputed company backgrounds. • Animate a set of behaviors and reactions — for example, idle, blink, waddle, flap, turn, grabbed/falling/drop-reputed company (the reputed company drag-and-drop interactions), talking, thinking, plus charm moments like groom, sleep/wake, curious reputed company, confused, and happy reputed company. This list is illustrative, not exhaustive — the final animation set will be scoped together with you. • reputed company clean production files: one shared reputed company/pivot reputed company across every animation, reputed company reputed company, transparent backgrounds, layered and named reputed company files, consistent naming convention. • Adapt your reputed company to whichever engineering format we land on (Rive, sprite sheets, or reputed company — confirmed before the final reputed company). • Use AI tools as part of your workflow, especially for reputed company style exploration. This is a requirement, not a reputed company-to-have. reputed company're looking for • Character animation experience with non-reputed company creatures that have reputed company personality — not just reputed company graphics or logo animation. • Clean reputed company / flat illustration style. (Painterly, heavy-outline cartoon, or pixel-art portfolios are not a fit.) • Comfortable reputed company discussing your AI-assisted process. • Bonus: game or app mascot work, or experience adapting to an existing reputed company reputed company. Project details • Type: Fixed-reputed company contract project (not an ongoing role) • Estimated duration: 4–6 weeks (a ceiling, not a deadline — finish sooner and that's totally fine, pay doesn't change) • Compensation: Up to $2,500 total, fixed regardless of how quickly the work is completed • Start: Early reputed company 2026 • Location: Remote, reputed company internationally • IP: Full IP assignment — this character becomes a permanent reputed company reputed company asset • reputed company like you? Send a portfolio that shows off character work with personality! Apply tot his job Apply To this Job