Senior Animator

Rebellion; Oxford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Mental Health & Wellbeing support

Relocation package

Team events & discounts

Job summary

Rebellion in the UK is seeking a Senior Animator to craft engaging gameplay animations for upcoming 3rd-person tactical shooters. You will work across our Oxford or Warwick studios with a world-class team, contributing to character and creature motion that meets technical and artistic standards.

You'll collaborate with engineers on our custom engine, mentor juniors, and help shape production pipelines while using Maya or MotionBuilder and tracking tasks in JIRA.

Qualifications

• Senior Animator with experience in gameplay animation and 3D character/creature animation (must).
• Strong understanding of production pipelines, timing and storytelling.
• Experience with Motion Capture data processing and pipelines.
• Ability to mentor juniors and collaborate with other disciplines.
• Proficiency with Maya or MotionBuilder and related 3D software.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality gameplay character and creature animations.
• Apply timing, weighting, arc, and movement principles to 3D animations.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to interpret feedback.
• Develop understanding of our custom engine and tools.
• Polish motion capture data to a high standard.
• Track day-to-day tasks using JIRA.
• Mentor juniors under the lead/director.
• Support rigging and skinning discussions with technical animators.
• Contribute to production pipelines across teams.

Skills

3D animation

Mentorship

Collaboration

Game engines

Rigging

Skinning

Motion capture

Storytelling

Cinematography

Tools

Maya

MotionBuilder

Job description

We want you to#JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 yearswe’vebeen 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 filmstudio, 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 a Senior Animator and lend your talents to an exciting, yet-to-be-revealed3rdperson 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 Senior Animator,you'llcraft captivating and high-quality 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,collaborationand the chance to work with a world-class team! We can provide a relocation package, including movingassistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to yournew 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,arcsand perspective to create 3D animations.
• Good knowledge of best practices, productionpipelinesand 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.
• Good understanding of 3D software such as Maya, MotionBuilderor 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,processingand pipelines.

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 todemonstratetheir 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.

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