12 Visual Effects jobs in the United Kingdom

We’re looking for a Digital Designer (Motion & Video) to join our clients team–You’ll play a key role in bringing our client brand to life across their website, app, and digital campaigns, with a strong focus on motion design and video content. From product explainers and onboarding animations to scroll-stopping social content, your work will help real people understand and use financial tools with ease.

• Creating compelling motion graphics and video content for product explainers, app animations, and digital campaigns
li>Designing short-form animations for our app, website, social media, and paid media
• Translating scripts and concepts into clear, on-brand, and engaging visual stories
• Delivering production-ready Lottie animations optimised for smooth handoff to development
• Contributing to our design system with reusable motion assets and animation best practices
• Supporting occasional static digital design tasks — always with a motion-first mindset

• A solid portfolio of motion design and video projects - creativity, clarity, and user focus are key
li>Basic Figma knowledge - enough to pull assets from our design system and stay aligned li>(Bonus) Illustration or 3D skills are a plus - but not essential
• Awareness of atomic design principles and how motion fits into scalable systems

< i>Creative, but consistent - able to work within brand guidelines and bring briefs to life
• A self-starter - confident owning briefs from start to finish
• Organised and reliable - comfortable managing your time across multiple workstreams
• Collaborative - you enjoy sharing ideas, taking feedback, and being part of a team

< i>Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop)
• Figma
• Lottie (for export-ready app animations)
• (Nice-to-have) Illustration/3D design tools

• A paid wellness day, your birthday off, and an optional charity day
• Flexible hybrid working
• A friendly, down-to-earth culture that values creativity and personal growth
• Ongoing learning and development support

We’re looking for a Digital Designer (Motion & Video) to join our clients team–You’ll play a key role in bringing our client brand to life across their website, app, and digital campaigns, with a strong focus on motion design and video content. From product explainers and onboarding animations to scroll-stopping social content, your work will help real people understand and use financial tools with ease.

• Creating compelling motion graphics and video content for product explainers, app animations, and digital campaigns
li>Designing short-form animations for our app, website, social media, and paid media
• Translating scripts and concepts into clear, on-brand, and engaging visual stories
• Delivering production-ready Lottie animations optimised for smooth handoff to development
• Contributing to our design system with reusable motion assets and animation best practices
• Supporting occasional static digital design tasks — always with a motion-first mindset

• A solid portfolio of motion design and video projects - creativity, clarity, and user focus are key
li>Basic Figma knowledge - enough to pull assets from our design system and stay aligned li>(Bonus) Illustration or 3D skills are a plus - but not essential
• Awareness of atomic design principles and how motion fits into scalable systems

< i>Creative, but consistent - able to work within brand guidelines and bring briefs to life
• A self-starter - confident owning briefs from start to finish
• Organised and reliable - comfortable managing your time across multiple workstreams
• Collaborative - you enjoy sharing ideas, taking feedback, and being part of a team

< i>Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop)
• Figma
• Lottie (for export-ready app animations)
• (Nice-to-have) Illustration/3D design tools

• A paid wellness day, your birthday off, and an optional charity day
• Flexible hybrid working
• A friendly, down-to-earth culture that values creativity and personal growth
• Ongoing learning and development support

Were looking for a Digital Designer (Motion & Video) to join our clients teamYoull play a key role in bringing our client brand to life across their website, app, and digital campaigns, with a strong focus on motion design and video content. From product explainers and onboarding animations to scroll-stopping social content, your work will help real people understa.

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Lighthouse Games is a AAA studio located in Leamington Spa, driven by a team of elite professionals and an exciting vision to create a groundbreaking game. At Lighthouse, we foster an environment that supports creativity and collaboration, allowing you to produce exceptional work and hone your craft. As a Senior VFX Artist, you will be at the forefront of enhancing our games' visual experiences through cutting-edge effects that captivate our players.

In this role, you will collaborate with various teams to conceptualise and implement high-calibre visual effects that align with our artistic goals. Your expertise will not only help shape the aesthetic of our projects but also serve as a guiding light for our junior artists, helping them grow and thrive in their roles.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work alongside the Art Director and interdisciplinary teams to design and create impactful VFX that elevate gameplay and storytelling.
• Develop and optimise VFX assets using industry-standard tools, ensuring they meet artistic and technical specifications.
• Contribute to the refinement of VFX workflows and pipelines, enhancing overall productivity and output quality.
• Mentor junior artists within the team, providing insights and constructive feedback to enhance their skill sets.
• Engage with Technical Artists and developers to ensure seamless integration of VFX into the gameplay environment.
• Stay current with industry trends in VFX technology and techniques, sharing knowledge and innovations with the team to foster growth.
• Participate in creative reviews and critiques to uphold a high standard of quality for all VFX assets produced.

Requirements

• Proven experience in creating VFX for video games, demonstrated through a well-curated portfolio (ideally real-world effects: rain, smoke, dust clouds, fire etc.)
• Strong understanding of visual effects principles, including dynamics, simulation, and compositing techniques.
• Proficient in using software tools like Maya, Houdini to produce VFX content.
• Experience with game engines such as Unreal Engine, particularly in implementing and optimising visual effects.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams, with excellent communication skills.
• A passion for mentoring and cultivating talent among junior staff members.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine, particularly the Niagara VFX system.
• Experience with Houdini and EmberGen for advanced visual effects.
• Knowledge of shader programming (HLSL or visual scripting for UE4/5) for creating custom effects.

Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday, plus 1 day for your birthday
• Studio Shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Pension Scheme
• Private Healthcare
• Health and Well-Being Benefits
• Dental Care
• Optical treatments
• Mental Health Support

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We are on the lookout for a Lead VFX Artist to join our passionate and growing VFX team to work on an upcoming unannounced project at the early stages of development.

The VFX team is responsible for all visual effects developed in Rebellions games. Not only particle effects, but screen post effects, material effects, mesh destruction effects and UI effects developed in Rebellions propriety engine “Asura”.

You'll play a pivotal role in shaping project-specific processes and delivering industry-leading VFX for exciting new titles, giving you a direct influence on the construction and pipeline requirements.

This is an incredible opportunity for those eager to take on the challenge of providing impactful leadership and mentorship, fostering the development and career growth of a talented team.

This role is based at our riverside headquarters in Oxford, offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success. We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.

We believe in the power of face-to-face collaboration and encourage working from our Oxford headquarters. However, we understand that flexibility matters, so we’re open to discussing hybrid options based on individual needs.

Responsibilities

• Contribute significantly to the successful execution of high-quality VFX tasks.
• Stay organized and be proactive in developing VFX project documentation.
• Develop key VFX concepts to effectively communicate the visual direction of the game.
• Assist in creating a comprehensive template library of assets for use by other development team members.
• Produce a collection of VFX benchmark assets, complete with thorough documentation to support your team.
• Act as a mentor to help onboard new team members efficiently.
• Maintain high team morale and serve as a positive role model for seniors, regulars, and juniors within the team.

Requirements

• Proficient knowledge in one or more of the following areas:

- 3D Studio Max

- Maya

- Word document creation

- Blender

- Additional VFX tools (Unreal/Unity/Proprietary)

- Photoshop

- Simulation software (like EmberGen, Houdini, Cinema 4D, etc.)

- After Effects

- Confluence document editing

• Possess a deep understanding of hardware limitations to minimize optimization needs throughout a project.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills are essential. You should be comfortable reaching out to other departments for information and collaborating to find solutions to challenges.
• Expertise in crafting real-time VFX assets, along with an advanced knowledge of VFX shaders and the corresponding maps.
• Embrace a research-driven mindset and stay updated with emerging technologies and processes in the industry—better yet, innovate your own!
• Have a comprehensive understanding of real-world pyrotechnics and other natural effects, with a keen sense of weight, timing, and scale.

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

Life at Our Oxford HQ

Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.

Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city’s train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.

Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!

Inside Rebellion

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers

#LI-Hybrid

Rebellion North are looking for an experienced VFX Artist to work on Rebellion games as well as trusted industry partners on genre-defining AAA IPs. You will have the opportunity to join an ambitious team working on multiple projects using different engines including Unreal 5. Join us as we shoot for the stars!

You will be joining the talented Rebellion North studio based in our Wakefield Location. Rebellion North are a dynamic and growing team who relish challenges and punching above their weight. Our friendly & inclusive studio culture fosters an environment where all team members can reach their potential in the fastest possible time.

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

The Opportunity

Your role is to deliver real-time particle effects for the project and ensure that the integration of the work is in line with the project’s technical constraints and artistic direction. Your focus is on the execution of your work and how this will influence and improve the project.

Responsibilities :

• With direction from project lead, create consistent high-quality VFX, while proactively collaborating across all disciplines.
• Maintain and improve best practices for production pipeline and projects.
• Track and update the progress of day-to-day tasks using the designated tracking tools.
• Challenge, identify and help re-define technical and artistic process such as new project tools and functions.
• Proactively drive optimisation and debugging.
• Fully realise a space with the assets available to tell an interesting and varied story.
• Reference game design documents to maintain consistency and high quality of the environments, objectives, atmospheres, story, and style of the project.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of a game engine particle system editor.
• Excellent knowledge of Houdini’s Particle Simulation or EmberGen.
• An advanced understanding of 2D particle texture creation.
• Advanced knowledge of Photoshop, Substance Designer or other 2D packages.
• Knowledge of Perforce.
• Able to produce high quality art assets.
• Ability to translate concept and reference artwork into real-time particle effects.
• Knowledge of 3d software such as 3D Studio Max, Maya, and Blender.
• Knowledgeable of lighting and HDR.

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

·    22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)

·    Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision

·    Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover

·    Enhanced Family Leave

·    Interest Free, Tax-Free loans

·    Enhanced Pension Scheme

·    EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support

·    Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

About Us

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers

Supermassive Games have produced some of the most recognisable and compelling storytelling titles in the world of AAA games.  The BAFTA-winning Until Dawn , the cinematic masterclass of The Dark Pictures Anthology , the multi-award winning The Quarry , the action-packed rollercoaster horror VR titles Switchback VR and Rush of Blood to the world of Little Nightmares , and many more!

Time and time again, our incredibly talented and passionate team have delivered games that strike fear into all that dare to play.  And we have no plans to stop there! Alongside growing the Dark Pictures universe in new and exciting ways, we have several unannounced, and suitably thrilling, projects!

And so, as we move into new genres and grow our studio, our hunt for talent continues! 

Join the Supermassive Games team and create your own story.

We’re looking for a Senior VFX Artist to join us here at Supermassive Games…

In this role you’ll be:

Determined, self-motivated and keen to both inspire and collaborate with creative team-mates to create wondrous and exciting effects that propel our stories and characters to new heights - from simple and subtle elements to breath-taking wow moments!

This role will be based in one of our three central Guildford offices - each a short distance from the main train station. We’re passionate about the collaborative environment here at Supermassive Games where we work to a hybrid model in many of our roles. We are truly a diverse and international business of more than 40 different nationalities from around the globe, providing sponsorship and relocation assistance to those that require it (speak to one of our recruiters for more info).

Requirements

The main responsibilities will be:

• Engaging with the creative process to design and create innovative and high quality VFX.
• Implementing VFX within Unreal
• Collaborating with other disciplines such as lighting and environment artists, graphics programmers and level designers to create a great game experience.

Experience and skills that would best suit this position:

• You have VFX experience in commercial games development or in an allied field such as TV or Film production.
• A strong portfolio of work which demonstrates the ability to create visually impressive VFX which are sympathetic to the needs of the product.
• A good understanding of physical behaviour and motion in the creation of VFX - including a strong sense of timing.

• Experience using the Unreal Engine for the creation and deployment of effects is essential.
• Unreal
• Maya
• An industry standard real-time particle editor (UNITY, CryENGINE, Houdini)
• Photoshop

• Experience with After Effects and previsualisation tools is an advantage.

Benefits

The Perks of being a Supermassive Superstar are:

• 25 Days Annual Leave (3 of which are used when we close the studio for our end of year break)
• Private Medical Insurance (BUPA)
• Life Assurance (6 x annual salary)
• Quarterly Profit related Bonus 
• Pension Scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme
• Income Protection 
• Enhanced Family Leave (maternity and paternity pay)
• Generous staff referral scheme
• Discount Card for food and drink at our local pub