Engineering/Design Someone experience in creating and applying materials and textures in 3d studio max, with good scene/lighting skills. Character animation is a plus but not required. Job Description: Your responsibilities: - Collaborate with team members to understand business and user requirements - Translate requirements into highly innovative and interactive rich media experiences - Effectively conceptualize, design and create high-quality storyboards, mocks and animation demonstrations - Communicate design strategy and rationale to stakeholders - Handle multiple projects and deliver results in a timely manner - Contribute suggestions or ideas to improve branding and messaging Your qualifications: - Strong grasp of animation, rigging, and modeling as well as experience creating characters and fluid environments - Compelling portfolio that demonstrates your animation abilities, including assets such as wireframes, texture maps, motion, etc. - Primary skill: Animation - Additional skill(s): 3D Studio Max, Maya, XSI - Ability to work with constructive criticism as well as adhere to deadlines - A work style that is extremely detail oriented - A complete Elance profile - References or an established reputation on Elance preferred ------------------------------------------ Added 30 JUN 2012, 23:40 PM EDT Not sure what happen, but the actual job description got replaced by all the non-sense above, so to summarize this project this is what we are looking for. We’ve been working on a large design for a client that wants to have materials and textures applied to produce some rendered images and animation. The theme is to be “steam punk” and if you not aware of that style of design, just Google steam punk and you’ll get the idea. We are posting this sample part to review the skill/quality/and pricing of providers in order to award the full project to one or two providers. The full project has 200 plus components that will require materials/textures/lighting etc. in order to obtain good rendered sample. We prefer to work with someone that is using 3d studio max 12 but will except later version as long as it doesn’t create any visual differences. Please be advise that no third party controls can be used for texturing/rendering as the end product will be animated in directX and third party controls become problematic. Good luck and we look forward to working with someone soon. ------------------------------------------ Added 1 JUL 2012, 5:34 AM EDT forgot to add 3d source files, they are now attached ------------------------------------------ Added 1 JUL 2012, 16:55 PM EDT Please Note, we do not expect the sample part "Frame" to be done for free, we will pay for work done on this sample, however we are only using this part to evaluate skill/quality and pricing of the providers, and to have provide sample content that the client can relate to. I have attached the full assembly of the actual project but this is still going thru design changes and is not complete but should give an insite to the actual project that will be awarded to the provider. Please provide a proposal for doing the sample part "Frame" and your hourly rate so we can evaulate skill/quality/pricing and timeline. Desired Skills: 3d Keywords: Animation, 3d