Description
Playground Games is seeking an Experienced Cinematic Artist who will be responsible for story and character driven cinematics needed to realise the vision for Fable, our open world action RPG.
ABOUT US:
As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our divers=e team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Your cinematic expertise will cover a broad range of key areas including cinematography, performance direction and editing. You’re required to have strong skills in storytelling, cinematic theory, framing and composition as well as a deep understanding of character development and performances.
This is a contract role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.
What you'll do:
1. Collaborate with the cinematic team to stage, compose, and sequence cinematics.
2. Quickly iterating on pre-vis.
3. Collaborating with other disciplines to produce cinematic concepts and colour scripts.
4. Champion a strong vision and maintain quality, style and continuity, both visually and technically throughout the project.
5. Conceptualising and implementing strong layout, cinematography and editing.
6. Implementing cinematics into the game engine and testing to ensure that they fit.
7. Updating documentation.
What you'll bring:
8. Understanding of visual and emotional storytelling.
9. Developed skills in critical reasoning and emotional awareness within storytelling.
10. Highly skilled in cinematography, editing, and technical knowledge.
11. Experience with directing actors, or filming PCAP is a plus.
12. Experience with cinematic or sequencing tools (Unreal, Unity, Motion Builder