Technical Animator

Job title: Technical Animator

Contract type: Fixed term contractor until end of the production (April 2024), with a view to becoming permanent
Working Hours: 37.5 hours a week, 9:30am – 6pm are our core hours but flexible working is possible
Start Date: ASAP
Salary: depending on experience 

The project: We’re currently working with a major publisher on a new project based on one our best loved IPs. When working with IPs, our number one priority is always to create games that are inventive, creative, and unique in their own right – so that people who have never heard of the characters would still want to play it. 

Our new project is a real time stealth game. It takes the strategic, tense fun of stealth games and blends it with frenetic, chaotic mechanics to create a unique player experience. It’s launching on mobile first, followed closely by PC and other platforms.  

The Role: Working with the animation and engineering teams, you’ll be the one owning how animation is used in the game, and how it can be best realised in the Unreal engine to hit our core gameplay pillars, as well as creating animation to a high standard.

You’ll have ownership of the rigging process, creating rigs for new characters and helping edit and adjust our existing characters. You’ll be using, and help us build, cutting edge tools and real-time animation systems to make a deeply satisfying player experience.

In this role, you'll be deeply involved in collaborative decision-making on technical animation and pipeline approaches and issues.

About You: We’re looking for someone who is excited about gameplay animation, with a hunger for solving challenges and delivering high quality gameplay experiences. Ideally you are both an animator and a rigger and have excellent knowledge how these disciplines combine together in Unreal.

The ideal candidate would also have experience of building pipeline tools to solve problems and create efficiencies.

For a full role profile and to apply, please go to: https://jobs.aardman.com/vacancies/118/technical-animator.html

The closing date for applications is: 5pm on Friday 24th March 2023