Senior Character Animator

Can you work for a creative and innovative studio housing Indie and AAA teams?

mustardFX is proud to be working with long standing and well recognised developer based in the heart of the UK. Our client has a passion for providing the best working environment to make sure you thrive inside and outside of the studio. Adapting with an ever-evolving industry has been a key principal for the studio as they look to strive forward.

We're searching for a Senior Character Animator to integrate themselves and join the team to work on the player driven FPS sandbox. As a Senior Character Animator, you will be working to support and inspire the team of Animators to bring personality to the world that we're building, creating satisfying and reactive animations. You will be responsible for working with the team to conceive, prototype and implement exciting features and sequences, collaborating to create high and consistent quality across the game. Please note all candidates must be based in and have right to work in the UK.  

Responsibilities:

• Create reactive, satisfying and replayable animations for the game that both look and feel incredible.
• Assist and guide the animation quality standards and pipelines.
• Collaborate across disciplines to develop the gameplay experience.
• Mentoring junior team members, helping them achieve their best work.
• Ownership of defined features in the game.
• Testing, reviewing and iterating upon animations to tune them to the highest quality.

Requirements:

• Demo reel displaying character/3rd person animations for shooter games.
• 4+ years of industry experience as an Animator/Senior Character Animator.
• Maya expertise.
• Mentoring Skills.
• Excellent gameplay animation skills.

Desirable:

• Unreal Engine 4/5 experience in a professional environment.
• A relevant degree in Animation or equivalent professional full-cycle project experience.
• Experience on multiple deployed titles.

In return you'll get a comprehensive benefits package. For a confidential chat and/or to apply for this role, please get in touch with Tom Winter.

Tom leads mustard's Gaming recruitment desk focusing on all things Art, Animation, Design and Production, working closely with Indie and AAA studios to find the best talent in the UK's ever-growing Games Industry.

Tom Winter | |  0117 284 0422 |