Freelance Senior Animator

Outpost VFX Limited; India; Remote; INR 1,292,000 - 2,583,000; Part time

Job summary

Outpost VFX Limited is seeking a Freelance Senior Animator to deliver high-quality animation for flagship episodic and feature projects. You will create both main and supporting characters and CG elements, ensuring shots meet demanding standards. Participation in dailies and proactive feedback exchange are essential to success.

You will analyse technical challenges, tune performances, and collaborate within a fast-paced CG pipeline to maintain creative and technical excellence across sequences.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Maya and core animation principles.
• Experience animating characters, vehicles, props, creatures, and cameras.
• High-end film/episodic TV VFX experience and a solid CG pipeline understanding.

Responsibilities

• Animate both primary and secondary characters and elements for high-end episodic projects and feature films.
• Work efficiently to complete shots to excellent quality and participate in dailies.
• Analyse and troubleshoot animation-related technical challenges.

Skills

Animation fundamentals

Character animation

Shot composition

Troubleshooting animation

Feedback collaboration

Tools

Maya

Job description

The role As a Freelance Senior Animator you will be responsible for animating both primary and secondary characters and elements, working efficiently to complete assigned shots to an excellent quality for high end episodic projects and feature films. You will participate in dailies sessions, offering and receiving constructive feedback, and using your ability to analyse and troubleshoot to solve animation related technical challenges.

Key Skills

• Strong Knowledge of Maya
• Thorough understanding of the core animation principles and shot composition.
• Experience in animating characters, vehicles, props, creatures, and cameras.
• High level of experience working on High End Film / Episodic TV VFX.
• Good understanding of a CG Pipeline

Equal opportunities

At Outpost we believe that our strength lies in our differences. These help us to take different perspectives, challenge norms and create a special environment based on mutual respect. Outpost is an equal opportunities employer. Employment with us is based on a person’s extraordinary talent and potential. No candidate will receive any less favourable treatment based on their age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual preference, or any other factor that has no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

What’s different about Outpost?

We believe in making people matter at Outpost. We want to build a creative environment where everyone feels valued, treated with respect and able to make a positive difference every day. We’re ambitious and growing quickly but our focus remains on nurturing personal connections, supporting one another as well as making time to celebrate our collective successes. We’re always on the lookout for how we can do things better to enhance the experience of our team, our clients and the world around us.

What’s in it for you?

At Outpost you have the chance to make a valuable contribution, not only to the amazing high end episodic and film productions you’ll be working on, but also in developing the positive culture that we want to spread throughout the VFX community. You will have access to training through online training platforms as well as our own internal learning and development resources to enable you to continue to develop and hone your skills. You will also get to work alongside the incredibly talented, friendly, and genuine individuals that make up Outpost!