Rebellion North are looking for an Animator 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
As an Animator, you will create engaging gameplay animation content for our projects, maintain consistency within your work and ensure that it is in line with the project’s technical constraints and artistic direction.
Responsibilities:
1. Create consistent high-quality gameplay animations.
2. Use your knowledge of the principles of animation to create Keyframe and Motion capture animations to meet project requirements.
3. Prototype concept animations to quickly test in the Game engine and take feedback.
4. Have a good understanding and knowledge of practices, production pipelines and workflows.
5. Collaborate well within the animation team and to address feedback.
6. Good understanding of Game engine practices.
7. Possess an understanding of the motion capture pipeline to be able to add, fix and polish motion capture data.
Requirements
8. Good understanding of 3d software such as Maya, Motion Builder or equivalent animation software.
9. Good understanding of acting techniques, cinematography, and visual storytelling.
10. Ability to push the realistic mocap data to bring in dynamic and stylised animation.
11. Good ability to collaborate with technical animators in relation to rigging and skinning.
12. Good understanding of production pipelines.
13. You are a knowledgeable game dev animator with a passion for gameplay Animation
Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:
14. 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
15. Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
16. Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
17. Enhanced Family Leave
18. Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
19. Enhanced Pension Scheme
20. EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
21. 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.
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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.