Piping Hot Pekoe Monthly Mews

Hello Friends,

The leaves have finally started changing, Halloween has passed, and now it's time to bunker down with some of our favourite teas and wait for the snow to start falling.

As we've been working away we've added some new folks to our team, as well as looking for more. Read more below!

🚨We're Hiring!🚨

That's right, we're looking for another team member to join us as an Rigger and Animator on Pekoe! This is a remote work-for-hire contract open to Ontario residents (we are unable to hire outside of the province at this time, sorry!).​

This position is compensated at $25/h. The contract is for 960 hours split between 16 characters, but may be extended depending on your experience and skill to include other work. There is a two month probation period.​

While this position is a work-for-hire contract, we are a small studio looking to grow our team with skilled and passionate developers. For this reason, while this is a specialized position, generalist developer experience and the ability to wear more than one hat is an added bonus! We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every criteria listed. Folks historically marginalized in the videogame industry and those with diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Rig and animate low-poly engine-ready characters using character models provided by the Art Director and 3D Character Artist
• Work closely with the Art Director and 3D Character Artist to problem-solve and create characters that meet the artistic goals of the project
• Implement characters and assets ready to be brought into Unity
• Deliver on artistic/creative goals while adhering to the production, gameplay, and performance requirements of the project
• Occasionally assist with additional art duties (animating or advising on other objects or rigs)

Must Have

• Industry experience 3D rigging and animating characters for videogames
• Industry experience working in Unity or industry equivalent game engine
• Experience working in 3D modeling program, strong preference to Blender
• Excellent communication skills
• Interest in cats, tea, and cozy game

Nice to Have

• Experience with working and collaborating in an indie development pipeline
• Familiarity with animating anthropomorphic animal characters a bonus
• Familiarity with communication tools such as Slack, Jira, and Github is a bonus

How to Apply

Send an email to jobs@kittecupstudio.com and begin the subject line with “Animator and Rigger” along with your name, or fill out the google form below. Submit your resume and portfolio and tell us a little bit about yourself! Please let us know what your favourite tea is to show you’ve read through the entire application.

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Note: As part of the selection process we may ask you for a paid art test.

Welcome To Stephanie and ChiChi!

We've got two new folks joining us at Kitten Cup Studio for Pekoe! Say hello and welcome to Stephanie Cooke and ChiChi. Stephanie is joining us as our writer and ChiChi is our 3D Character Artist while we work on bringing Pekoe to life!

Stephanie Cooke is an award-nominated writer based out of Toronto, Canada. She is primarily known for her work on comics and graphic novels such as Oh My Gods! and ParaNorthern and the Chaos Bunny A-hop-calypse. You can find out more about her at stephaniecooke.ca and on Twitter or Instagram @hellocookie.

ChiChi makes super cute things, and we're so excited to be able to share more characters with you soon! You can find her online at @cheeezu_ on Twitter.

Teahouse Spotlight

This month our teahouse spotlight is Pippins Tea Company!

Located at 2098 Queen Street East in the East End of Toronto, this teahouse is open from 10AM to 6PM Monday through Saturday, and 11Am to 5PM on Sundays. They sell all sorts of tea wares, tea, and have a general store and sweets!

If you're in the East End of Toronto, you should go check them out. We encourage you to shop local and get to know the teahouses around you. Have a favourite teahouse in your area? Feel free to let us know and get them in the newsletter. 

Hope you have a wonderful cup of tea!

That's that for our November Mewsletter, we hope that you have a wonderful month and get to enjoy some nice cool walks in the Fall weather.

See you soon,

- Kitten Cup Studio

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