Technical Animator – Games | Flexible Hours

Talk Recruitment Ltd; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working Hours

Relocation Assistance

Paid Overtime

Private Health Cover

Gym / Health Club Memberships

Life Assurance & CI

Digital Allowance

Team lunches & events

Job summary

Talk Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Technical Animator for a Warwickshire-based gaming developer. Based in Leamington Spa, the role focuses on assisting the animation team, streaming workflows, and building animation toolsets to support high-quality in-game characters and props.

You will collaborate with art and programming, optimise pipelines, and contribute to a landmark project. The role offers flexible hours and a supportive environment with strong values and opportunities for long-term career

Qualifications

• Professional experience of animation and technical animation for games.
• Proficient in the use of job relevant software e.g. Maya.
• Experience with skinning & rigging.
• Ability to utilise and develop appropriate tools and pipelines to implement, review and iterate animations.
• A strong showreel of animation work and/or technical skills
• An understanding of UE4 blueprints, scripting, animation graphs or similar animation networks.
• Strong knowledge of anatomy and best practices for character topology.
• Exhibit a strong grasp of the principles of animating the human figure.
• Experience in working with outsourcers (Desireable)
• Facial animation experience. (Desireable)
• Familiarity with optimisation of animation (e.g. UE4 Blueprint Fast Path evaluation) (Desireable)

Responsibilities

• To assist the animation team, streamline and optimise current processes.
• Work collaboratively with the art & programmer disciplines to overcome technical challenges and build animation tool sets.
• To help the animation team implement quality in-game character and prop animations.
• To assist with skinning, rigging and streamline the relevant pipelines of those tasks.
• Help to build tools for future challenges with animations in a UGC environment.
• Work alongside the Art Director and Principal Animator to create and use processes that maintain the animation art style.
• Build strong collaborative working relationships with all members of the team and studio, regardless of discipline or seniority.
• Understand the audience and core goals and game ethos.

Skills

Animation proficiency

Technical animation

Anatomy & topology

Human figure principles

Outsourcing experience

Face animation

Maya

UE4 blueprints

Tools

Maya

UE4 blueprints

Animation tool pipelines

Job description

Talk Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Technical Animator for a Warwickshire-based gaming developer. Based in Leamington Spa, the role focuses on assisting the animation team, streaming workflows, and building animation toolsets to support high-quality in-game characters and props.

You will collaborate with art and programming, optimise pipelines, and contribute to a landmark project. The role offers flexible hours and a supportive environment with strong values and opportunities for long-term career