3DCG Video Director

Cygames

Art Dir

Animation

Game Art

Bonus

About this role

This director works with a CG video team and focuses on directing the production of visual content. The role covers direction for non-photorealistic CG and other CG video productions, with team-based development of visual content.

The required qualification is experience directing non-photorealistic CG or experience directing other types of CG video. Preferred experience includes practical video production for animation or commercials, special shader expression such as toon shading, and 2D work involving concept development, storyboards, or storyboards and drawings. Experience creating video for high-end CG films or large-scale games is also welcomed, as is deep knowledge and experience in a specific non-CG field that can contribute to content production.

The stated work profile includes communication skills, an inquisitive approach to advancing production independently, an interest in video, the ability to work with a team to create video, a sense of speed in handling work, and the willingness and flexibility to learn new CG production technologies as appropriate.

The listed employment type is full-time. The posting notes that employment as a contract employee or under an outsourcing agreement may also be possible. The annual salary is JPY 4.5 million to 12 million, determined according to experience, ability, and company rules. A semiannual performance incentive is available outside the annual salary. The annual salary includes prescribed overtime and late-night work allowances, paid regardless of whether overtime work occurs. The posting gives example annual amounts of JPY 6 million, 6.5 million, and 8 million.

Work hours are 10:00 to 19:00, with eight prescribed working hours and a 60-minute break from 13:00 to 14:00. Average monthly overtime was approximately 18.5 hours in 2025. The offices are in Shibuya and Meguro, Tokyo, and are indoors smoke-free in principle, with dedicated heated-tobacco smoking rooms.

Regular holidays are two full days per week on Saturdays and Sundays, plus public holidays. Leave includes three summer days taken between July 1 and November 30, year-end and New Year leave from December 29 to January 3, 10 days of paid annual leave granted on the joining date in the first year, and condolence leave. For outsourcing agreements, the holiday and leave conditions may differ.

Insurance for regular employees includes health, employment, workers’ compensation, and employees’ pension insurance; these insurance arrangements may not apply to outsourcing agreements. Support programs include an annual meeting, official clubs, social gathering cost assistance, a game playroom, onboarding training, CyStudy, Skill Thursday, and a mentor-trainer program for new graduates and second graduates. Health support includes influenza vaccination, an in-house osteopathic service, free soft drinks, lunch assistance, babysitter-use discounts, and brain health screening. Regular-employee benefits also include housing assistance, relocation allowance, child allowance, and a corporate defined-contribution pension plan. Side jobs are prohibited.

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