Creative jobs in Germany
Lead Technical Animator
Midweight Content Creative
Product Designer (Personalisation)
Senior Product Designer - Agency
Teaching Assistant
Midweight Creative (FTC)
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Costume Design and Construction
Coach Development and Methodology Manager (YDP & FP)
Connect with headhunters to apply for similar jobsIntegrated Senior Project Manager
Digital Content Team Leader - Europe & Middle East
Influencer Manager
Procurement & Contract Manager
Account Director - creative communications agency
Director of Product Operations | London, UK
Senior Creative
Brand Marketing Controller
Photography Producer
Promotional Medical Writer
Promotional Medical Writer
Promotional Medical Writer
Designer - Brand, Marketing & Web
Senior Designer
Creative Lead
Female Senior Support Worker
Female Support Worker
Lead Technical Animator
Creative Assembly is looking for a Lead Technical Animator to join our talented team to work on our new project, a sequel to Alien: Isolation.
This role will be based at our studio in Horsham, UK and can be offered as hybrid / in-studio / fully remote within country of employment. Further details can be discussed during the recruitment process.
Note: Applications for this role will ideally include a portfolio (or link to a portfolio).
The Role
As the Lead Technical Animator, you will spearhead efforts to enhance the quality and efficiency of our character, animation, and supporting pipelines. This pivotal role bridges the gap between art, animation, and technology, ensuring the development, integration, and delivery of high-quality character, animation, and technical solutions across the project. Your work will ensure that animations and characters are not only visually stunning but also seamlessly functional within the engine, providing players with an engaging and immersive experience.
This is a new project, being built in UE5, this role offers an exciting opportunity to have a significant influence on the foundational technology and evolving look and feel of the game.
What you’ll be doing
On a day-to-day basis, you will:
- Apply your technical expertise directly in creating, developing, and managing our character and animation pipeline – from DCC to engine.
- Devise, assist and implement character and animation systems, rigs, tools, and pipelines.
- Collaborate and work closely with animators, motion capture technicians, artists, technical artists, and engineers, in helping deliver engaging and immersive characters.
- Review existing workflows, tools, and systems, identifying and solving technical challenges within the animation pipeline.
- Research emerging technologies; improving efficiency and quality of our character and animation assets and pipeline.
- Adapt to learn new skills that will help elevate and offer new solutions to meet the design, gameplay, and project requirements.
- Tackle day-to-day requests for improvements and bug fixes.
- A passion for games and games animation
- Strong ability to communicate clear direction, break down tasks and feedback to help mentor, guide and educate fellow teammates.
- Experience with commonly used DCCs such as Maya & MoBu
- Excellent knowledge of Python and coding standards
- Excellent knowledge of complex rigging systems
- Excellent understanding of in-engine character and animation systems – locomotion, modular character setups, runtime deformation and physics
- Previously worked on AAA titles in an equivalent role.
- Solid understanding of 3D math (linear algebra, vector and matrix math)
- Experience with Unreal Engine
- Experience with complex face rig setup - FACs based.
- Experience with C++ /Maya API & Plugin writing
- Experience with 3DS Max & Blender
- Experience with motion capture pipelines and shoots
Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.
We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities.
We are located in Horsham, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.
Most roles at Creative Assembly are hybrid; what this looks like will be discussed during the interview process. For many teams this is 3 days a week in the studio. CA has the right to change requirements based on the needs of the business.
We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:
- Additional medical and dental health insurance for you, your partner and kids, life in-surance, and free health care screening
- Additional holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, as all Bulgarian Bank holidays
- Annual discretionary studio bonus
- Defined career development pathways and personalised training support including; SEGA Dev Day, internal masterclasses, prestigious creative workshops, on-site training with renowned specialists and global conference attendance
- Wellbeing support with an employee assistance programme
- Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
- Free breakfast every day - toast, cereals, yoghurts, fresh fruit, soft drinks and more in our fully stocked kitchen
- Office massages
- Studio parties for you and your family; such as our Summer and Christmas parties, Children’s day party, wrap parties for game releases
We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.
job faster
Follow us
