Senior Animator

Rebellion; Warwick; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Mental Health Support

Relocation package

Job summary

Rebellion is seeking a Senior Animator to craft captivating gameplay animations for a yet-to-be-revealed 3rd person tactical shooter. You will ensure cohesion with the project's technical specs and artistic vision.

The role can be based at our Oxford or Warwick studios with relocation support, temporary accommodation and full assistance to ensure a smooth transition. Join a world-class team delivering diverse projects across major platforms.

Qualifications

• Proficient in 3D animation for characters and creatures.
• Strong understanding of acting, cinematography and storytelling in games.
• Experience animating realistic character and creature motion.
• Able to collaborate with technical animators on rigging and skinning.
• Familiar with motion capture data and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Create consistent high-quality gameplay character and creature animations.
• Apply timing, weight, exaggeration, anticipation and motion principles to 3D animations.
• Understand production pipelines and best practices across tools and engines.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to interpret feedback and refine animations.
• Learn and work with our custom engine and tools.

Skills

Maya

MotionBuilder

Character Animation

Rigging Collaboration

Production Pipelines

Motion Capture

Game Dev Enthusiast

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 a Senior 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 Senior Animator, you'll craft 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, 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.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers

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