Senior Animator 12 Month FTC - Studio Elevation (Remote within the UK)

nDreams; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading VR studio as a Senior Animator, where you'll create and refine animations for groundbreaking VR games. Collaborate with a talented team to ensure seamless integration of animations, while working fully remote within the UK. This role offers a competitive salary and a supportive, inclusive workplace culture.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Duvet days

Birthday off

Dedicated personal development time

Health insurance

Pension scheme

Life cover

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of animation principles and techniques.
• Expert in animation software such as Maya, Blender, or equivalent.
• Experience with motion capture and rigging.

Responsibilities

• Design, create, and refine animations for characters, creatures, and environments.
• Collaborate with designers, artists, and programmers to integrate animations.
• Implement animations within Unreal Engine.

Skills

Animation principles

Game genres understanding

Motion planning

Maya

Blender

Motion capture

Excellent communication

Collaborative work

Analytical skills

Tools

Motion Builder

Job description

nDreams Studio Elevation is re-establishing the boundaries of VR. We’re looking for an exceptionally talented Senior Animator to help us explore, create, and deliver world-leading innovation in software and VR hardware. With our first title nearing release and a second in early planning stages, it’s a great time to join our fully remote, VR-first studio.

As a Senior Animator, you will design, create, and refine animations for characters, creatures, vehicles, and environments, ensuring they meet the artistic vision and technical requirements of the game. You will have a strong input on pipeline and animation standards.

The rundown:

• 12 month fixed term contract

• Full time (37.5 hours per week)

• Fully remote within the UK

• Salary is competitive and dependent on experience

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers, artists, and programmers to ensure animations integrate seamlessly into the game.

• Deliver best in class animations for our characters utilising traditional animation and mo-cap integration.

• Work closely with the Art director and Animation team to achieve the artistic vision of the project.

• Stay updated with the latest animation techniques and technologies.

• Implement animations within Unreal Engine.

Requirements

The skills you’ll need:

• Strong understanding of animation principles and techniques.

• The ability to understand game genres and art styles and create animations that suit those worlds.

• Help define motion planning and the implementation process of various characters and their respective responsiveness.

• Expert in animation software such as Maya, Blender, or equivalent.

• Experience using motion builder.

• Experience with motion capture and rigging.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a remote team environment.

• Knowledge of game development pipelines, including asset management and version control systems.

• Strong analytical skills to solve technical and creative challenges in animation

The nice to haves:

• Experience with VR animation.

• Passion for VR and innovative technologies.

Benefits

We are nDreams – we develop and publish the world’s most immersive VR games. You may know us as the developer behind Synapse, Phantom: Covert Ops, Fracked, and Frenzies. As a publisher, we have also supported the release of other studio’s titles including Little Cities, PowerWash Simulator VR, and Vendetta Forever. With humble beginnings as an independent studio, we combine amazing projects with a personal, caring touch. We’ve got more incredible titles to be announced soon!

We believe the best workplaces and games are created by diverse, happy and safe teams. We're committed to building a culture centred on respect, wellbeing and balance. It's crucial we make our games and industry more accessible to underrepresented communities. We strive to live this through the people we hire, the experiences we create and the causes we support.

We want everyone to have the opportunity to bring their best, authentic self to work. Please let us know if you require reasonable adjustments during the interview process by emailing [e-mail] or speaking to your nDreams recruiter. For more information about reasonable adjustments, check out this guidance from Scope.

We offer great perks, including flexible hours, duvets days, your birthday off, dedicated personal development time and support, as well as regular socials. Beyond this, there’s an excellent holiday offering, pension scheme, health insurance, life cover and much more.