3D Animator & Renderer

We’re looking for a highly skilled 3D Animator & Renderer to join our Creative/Design team. This hybrid role focuses on photoreal rendering, motion execution, and craft excellence across pitches, client work, and internal IP. You will bring conceptual worlds, environments, products, and motion design to life, working on projects from experiential environments to campaign imagery and high-quality pre-visualization.

Must Have

• Execute high-quality 3D animation across objects, environments, typography, and simulated elements.
• Develop motion tests, camera animations, style frames, and animated sequences for pitches and productions.
• Produce photoreal or highly stylized environmental renders using industry-standard rendering engines.
• Create lighting, texturing, shading, look dev, and atmospheric treatments that elevate concepts into polished environments and assets.
• Deliver pixel-accurate output ready for Post and Content Production teams.
• Produce previsualization, environment layouts, and spatial representations for experiential work.
• Support mood films, pitch decks, and R&D explorations with high-impact visualizations.
• Work collaboratively with Experiential and Production to ensure environments and assets are buildable, realistic, and aligned with creative intent.
• Partner closely with Creative Directors, Designers, Strategists, and Producers from brief through final delivery.
• Translate creative ideas into actionable 3D execution plans.
• Support timing, scoping, and feasibility conversations with Production and Post.
• 3–5+ years of experience in 3D animation, rendering, or motion design.
• Fluency in Cinema 4D, Houdini, Blender, and Unreal Engine.
• Strong rendering experience in Redshift, Octane, Arnold, or similar.
• A portfolio demonstrating photoreal rendering, animation craft, and worldbuilding sensibility.
• Strong understanding of lighting, texturing, shading, simulation, and environmental design.
• Experience collaborating with creative leads, producers, and mixed-discipline teams.
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment balancing speed with quality.
• Ability to work 4x days per week in the office (Monday-Thursday), Fridays remotely.

Good to Have

• Fluency in Depence.
• Experiential visualization experience.

Perks & Benefits

• Full Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• 401k with a 4% company contribution max match
• Fully covered yearly Citibike membership
• Commuter benefits
• Talkspace membership
• Competitive PTO package
• End of Year Recharge
• Sabbatical Program

Who are we?

MATTE is a 360° full-service creative studio at the convergence of hype, storytelling and design. We bring people together to inspire new ways of engaging, to provoke long term progress, and to entertain audiences around the world, while helping forward-thinking brands and institutions nimbly and truly do the same. Our studio capabilities range from strategic ideation and insights, creative development, branding and identity, experiential, web design and development, campaigns and content creation, all the way through full-scale production and execution.

About this role:

We’re looking for a highly skilled 3D Animator & Renderer to join our Creative/Design team. This role sits inside MATTE’s growing 3D discipline, partnering closely with Creative, Experiential, Content Production, and Post to bring conceptual worlds, environments, products, and motion design to life.

This is a hybrid creative–technical role with a strong emphasis on photoreal rendering, motion execution, and craft excellence across pitches, client work, and internal IP.

You’ll work on projects ranging from experiential environments to campaign imagery, motion assets, worldbuilding R&D, stage visuals, and high-quality pre-visualization for complex productions.

3D Animation & Motion:

• Execute high-quality 3D animation across objects, environments, typography, and simulated elements.
• Develop motion tests, camera animations, style frames, and animated sequences for pitches and productions.
• Translate creative direction into dynamic, intentional motion that reflects MATTE’s visual tone and experimentation.

Rendering & Visual Craft:

• Produce photoreal or highly stylized environmental renders using industry-standard rendering engines
• Create lighting, texturing, shading, look dev, and atmospheric treatments that elevate concepts into polished environments and assets.
• Deliver pixel-accurate output ready for Post and Content Production teams.

Worldbuilding & Visualization:

• Produce previsualization, environment layouts, and spatial representations for experiential work (events, installations, retail environments, scenic builds).
• Support mood films, pitch decks, and R&D explorations with high-impact visualizations.
• #### Work collaboratively with Experiential and Production to ensure environments and assets are buildable, realistic, and aligned with creative intent.

Collaboration & Cross-Team Partnership

• Partner closely with Creative Directors, Designers, Strategists, and Producers from brief through final delivery.
• Translate creative ideas into actionable 3D execution plans.
• Support timing, scoping, and feasibility conversations with Production and Post.

What you will bring:

• 3–5+ years of experience in 3D animation, rendering, or motion design (studio, agency, or production environment preferred).
• Fluency in Cinema 4D, Houdini, Blender, and Unreal Engine.
• Strong rendering experience in Redshift, Octane, Arnold, or similar. (fluency in Depence is a plus)
• A portfolio demonstrating photoreal rendering, animation craft, and worldbuilding sensibility.
• Strong understanding of lighting, texturing, shading, simulation, and environmental design.
• Experience collaborating with creative leads, producers, and mixed-discipline teams.
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment balancing speed with quality.
• Experiential visualization experience (preferred but not required).
• Ability to work 4x days per week in the office (Monday-Thursday), Fridays remotely.

Compensation: $85,000-$100,000/year

Benefits include:

• Full Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• 401k with a 4% company contribution max match
• Fully covered yearly Citibike membership
• Commuter benefits
• Talkspace membership
• Competitive PTO package
• End of Year Recharge
• Sabbatical Program

Everyone is welcome at MATTE - we’re passionate about building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and creating an environment where our differences are celebrated. MATTE provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, MATTE will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.