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Josh Mucca
3D Character Animator
madrid, Spain

Summary

3D Animator with 8+ years of experience in AAA video game and feature film production. Specialised in gameplay animation: combat, locomotion, mocap retargeting and hand-keyed character work. Trained mocap actor. Background spans games and cinematics across multiple production pipelines.

Skills

3D AnimationRigginglayoutGame animationprevizMocap retargetingFacial animationCinematic animationLocomotionGameplay animationHand-key animationCombat animationMocap acting

Software proficiency

Maya
Maya
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine
Premiere
Premiere
MotionBuilder
MotionBuilder

Reel

Experience

  • 3D Animator at Rekindled Studios
    Remote, GB
    March 2026 - Present

    Working with SEGA on a confidential AAA title (large-scale character). Mocap retargeting, cleanup and hand-keyed polishing; authoring new gameplay animations from mocap and from scratch; iterating with the client through SyncSketch and weekly reviews. Pipeline: Maya, Perforce, SyncSketch.

  • 3D Animator at MercurySteam
    Madrid, ES
    June 2023 - September 2025

    Full-time animator on Blades of Fire (PS5, Xbox, PC). Mocap retargeting and hand-key animation; in-house mocap actor for combat and character captures. AAA production pipeline.

  • Lead 3D Animator at Kinetix
    Remote, FR
    April 2022 - May 2023

    Promoted from Senior to Lead 3D Animator. Motion capture cleanup, character rigging, keyframe animation, creation of game animations (emotes). Animation team organisation and supervision as Lead.

  • 3D Animator at Tessera Studios
    Remote, ES
    April 2021 - April 2022

    Animator on the videogame Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova.

  • 3D Animator at Elite 3D
    Remote, ES
    August 2020 - April 2021

    Hand-key animation contributions for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

  • 3D Animator at Mr. X
    Montreal, CA
    February 2020 - June 2020

    Character animation for Netflix series: Barbarians, Cursed, Angel of Darkness.

  • 3D Animator at The Mill
    Montreal, CA
    September 2019 - December 2019

    Feature film and commercial animation.

  • 3D Game Animator at Coven Arts
    Remote, ES
    September 2017 - October 2018

    Main character animation for PS4 videogame Inglorious.