magic anime pictures. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
You will join a small but extremely talented team to define a new kind of video game experience. You'll work alongside top otaku minds in the industry, including the creator of Warudo and Cytoid , a Google Deepmind veteran behind Project Astra , and top-tier AI researchers. As an early member of this team, you will have significant artistic and research freedom to shape what could become the next-generation LLM-driven storytelling experience.
What they're looking for
- You might have previously published papers around the topic, or have worked at an industrial lab on this and related topics. You have seen the Grok AI companion and can develop systems inspired by such an audio-synced motion-generation system
- Most anime character’s facial expressions are easier to generate than real people. Nevertheless, we have several magnitudes of more real human data. You’ll be a good fit if you have worked on speech-driven 3D facial animation
- We need to interact with the character in real time. Knowing how to make that happen in terms of motion generation will be a big bonus
More about this role
tl;dr: We're building a 3D first-person adventure game where an AI companion is the core of the game. Think MiSide with LLMs, but truly integrated with gameplay, not just a RP chatbot.
Here at Spellbrush , we're passionate about making a good anime game.
We also happen to be the world's leading generative AI studio—we're the team behind niji・journey .
Our mission is simple: use AI to bring characters to life and push the boundaries of narrative-driven games.
What We’re Building
We’ve developed an in-house LLM storytelling system that blends AI, story, and gameplay—going far beyond shallow “chat-only” experiences.
The result is an AI companion who cooperates with you in puzzles, remembers across worlds, and changes how each chapter unfolds.
In-game screenshots (development build)
You will join a small but extremely talented team to define a new kind of video game experience. You'll work alongside top otaku minds in the industry, including the creator of Warudo and Cytoid , a Google Deepmind veteran behind Project Astra , and top-tier AI researchers.
As an early member of this team, you will have significant artistic and research freedom to shape what could become the...
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