Animator

Rebellion; Warwick; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Dental & Vision Care

Life Assurance

Pension Scheme

Mental Health Support

Holiday entitlement & social events

Job summary

Rebellion is seeking an Animator to craft captivating gameplay animations for a new 3rd person tactical shooter. The role supports relocation to the UK studios in Oxford or Warwick and offers a comprehensive benefits package.

You will transform motion capture data into polished in-game animation, align with technical specs and artistic direction, and collaborate with a world-class team across multiple studios for ongoing projects.

Qualifications

• Experience with Maya or MotionBuilder or equivalent animation software.
• Ability to animate realistic character and creature motion.
• Collaborate with technical animators on rigging and skinning and work within production pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Create consistent high-quality gameplay character and creature animations.
• Apply timing, weight, exaggeration, easing, anticipation and secondary motion in 3D animations.
• Understand production pipelines and best practices, and adapt to workflows.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to implement engaging animations and iterate on feedback.
• Learn and work with our custom engine and tools.
• Polish motion capture data to a high standard and clean data.
• Track progress using JIRA and report day-to-day tasks.

Skills

Maya

MotionBuilder

Animation

Motion capture

Rigging & skinning

Team collaboration

Storytelling

Tools

Custom engine tools

JIRA

Job description

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

Join our passionate team as an Animator and lend your talents to an exciting, yet-to-be-revealed 3rd person tactical shooter! This is a fantastic chance to play a pivotal role in a venture that builds upon Rebellion's legacy of success.

In the role of Animator, you'll craft captivating gameplay animations for our projects, ensuring your work is not only cohesive but also aligns with the project's technical specifications and artistic vision.

This exciting opportunity can be based out either of our studios in Oxford or Warwick, offering flexibility, collaboration and the chance to work with a world-class team! We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.

Responsibilities

• Create consistent high-quality gameplay character and creature animations.
• Use your knowledge of timing, exaggeration, weighting/scale, ease in/out, overlapping actions, anticipation, secondary motion, framing, squash/stretch, arcs and perspective to create 3D animations.
• Good knowledge of best practices, production pipelines and workflows.
• Collaborate and interpret feedback from other disciplines to create engaging animations.
• Using knowledge of other game engines, develop an understanding of our custom engine and tools.
• Clean, blend, fix and polish motion capture data to a high standard
• Track and update the progress of day-to-day tasks using JIRA.
• Willingness to provide feedback and mentorship to juniors under the direction of the lead/director.

Requirements

• Good understanding of 3D software such as Maya, Motion Builder or equivalent animation software.
• Good understanding of acting techniques, cinematography, and visual storytelling.
• Able to animate realistic character and creature motion.
• Ability to collaborate with technical animators in relation to rigging and skinning.
• Good knowledge of production pipelines.
• You are a proficient game dev enthusiast with a passion for gameplay animation.
• Experience of Motion Capture data capturing, processing and pipelines.

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more... including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

Right to Work Statement

This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.

Life at Our Oxford HQ

Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.

Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city’s train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.

Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!

Inside Rebellion

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.