Junior Animator - Sci Fi Shooter
Rebellion, United Kingdom
Job Description
We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!
For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason amp; Chris Kingsley, 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 operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool, and Wakefield. Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them. So, if you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support flexible/hybrid working options.
We are on the hunt for a talented Junior Animator to play a key role in helping shape a brand-new IP, at a company with a history of making exciting 3rd person shooters.
With guidance, you will begin to create animation content for our projects. You will maintain consistency within your work and ensure that it is in line with the project’s technical constraints and artistic direction. You will help create innovative movements and behaviours for an unannounced, Sci-Fi shooter game.
Responsibilities:
- With feedback and guidance, create consistent high-quality animations which can be shared across the project.
- Use your knowledge of the principles of animation to create 3D animations.
- Have an understanding of best practices, production pipelines and workflows.
- Collaborate and interpret feedback from other disciplines to create engaging animations.
- Develop an understanding of our custom engine and tools.
- Clean, fix and polish motion capture data.
- Track and update the progress of day-to-day tasks using JIRA.
Requirements
- Experience using 3d software such as Maya or equivalent animation software.
- Basic understanding of acting techniques, cinematography, and visual storytelling.
- Able to animate realistic human motion.
- Ability to collaborate with technical animators in relation to rigging and skinning.
- Basic knowledge of production pipelines.
- You're a self-learner with a passion and excitement for game development and animation.
Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:
- 26 days holiday + 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 amp; 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