Experienced Cinematic Artist

Playground Games; England; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Playground Games, a leading Xbox Game Studio, is seeking an Experienced Cinematic Artist to create story-driven cinematics for the reboot of the Fable franchise. This permanent role involves collaboration across disciplines, strong cinematography skills, and a keen understanding of storytelling and character performance. Join a diverse and inclusive team in a creative environment with hybrid working options and relocation assistance.

Qualifications

• Experience with directing actors is a plus.
• Deep understanding of character development and performances.
• Experience with cinematic or sequencing tools.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the cinematic team to stage, compose, and sequence cinematics.
• Conceptualising and implementing strong layout, cinematography and editing.
• Implementing cinematics into the game engine and testing.

Skills

Cinematography

Storytelling

Lighting

Editing

Performance direction

Tools

Unreal

Unity

Motion Builder

Job description

Experienced Cinematic Artist, Warwickshire

Client:

Location:

Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

0886ee117218

Job Views:

5

Posted:

29.06.2025

Expiry Date:

13.08.2025

Job Description:

Description

Playground Games is seeking an Experienced Cinematic Artist who will be responsible for story and character driven cinematicsneeded to realise the vision for Fable, our open world action RPG.

ABOUT US:

As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Your cinematic expertise will cover a broad range of key areas including cinematography, lighting, performance direction and editing. You’re required to have strong skills in storytelling, cinematic theory, framing and composition as well as a deep understanding of character development and performances.

This is a permanent role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with the cinematic team to stage, compose, and sequence cinematics.
• Quickly iterating on pre-vis.
• Collaborating with other disciplines to produce cinematic concepts and colour scripts.
• Champion a strong vision and maintain quality, style and continuity, both visually and technically throughout the project.
• Conceptualising and implementing strong layout, cinematography and editing.
• Collaborating to implement highly curated cinematic lighting.
• Implementing cinematics into the game engine and testing to ensure that they fit.

What you'll bring:

• Understanding of visual AND observational storytelling.
• Developed skills in critical reasoning and emotional awareness within storytelling.
• Highly skilled in cinematography, and editorial.
• Experience with directing actors is a plus.
• Experience with lighting is a plus.
• Experience with cinematic or sequencing tools (Unreal, Unity, Motion Builder

This is an exceptional opportunity to join an established, highly experienced and collaborative team, within one of the world’s most exciting games studios. It provides exciting challenges for new or experienced developers looking to establish their career and create world class games.

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.

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Created on 29/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom