Job Title: Senior Animator (Game Systems)
Client Location: Leamington Spa (3 days onsite per week)
Starting: Nov/Dec 2024
Salary/Pay Rate: £98,238 per annum, pro rata (PAYE Only)
Hours: Full-time
Duration: 6-month contract (with scope to extend)
Aquent is helping our social media client recruit a Senior Animator with experience delivering animation to game systems to work with their team to deliver human and creature animation.
This is a 6-month contract position with the scope to extend. Our client operates on a hybrid model where you’ll be required to work onsite in their Leamington Spa office 3 days per week. The role offers an attractive rate of £47.23 per hour, equivalent to £98,238 per annum, pro rata (PAYE), and comes with up to 33 days of holiday per annum, pro rata, inclusive of 8 bank holidays.
Main responsibilities:
- Work with the team to deliver human and creature animation
- Deliver animation content to the game engine in Maya
- Help review vendor work
Skills Required:
- Senior experience working with in-game movement sets of connected animations
- Ability to feedback on required improvements to other animators and outsource vendors
- High competence with animation delivery for run time (games) systems
- Portfolio showing human and creature animation
- Experience with human and animal game movement and actions
- Relevant experience with the end-to-end process
- Highly proficient in relevant software packages, e.g. Maya and commercial game engines
- Experience with Unity is a bonus
- Motion capture experience a bonus
We’d love you to apply for this Senior Animator role, so please submit your CV and portfolio today!
*This role is open for a limited time. Next steps will be shared with shortlisted candidates by Monday 28th October. Due to the high volume of applicants, we may be unable to reply to each applicant individually. If you have not received a response within 48 hours of your application, please assume that you have not been selected for progression to the next stage of the hiring process.
Client Description
Our Client is the largest social media company in the world. They have substantial B2B and B2C advertising and media platforms, as well as a nonprofit initiative. With the mission of bringing people together, they now boast over 2 billion users, and are rapidly developing as they influence the world around us.
Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.
