Technical Animator

UK Remote or West Midlands Based – Birmingham/Worcestershire Area  

Please note: We welcome applicants who prefer to work from home; however, we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity at this time.

Role:

We are looking for a skilled and motivated individual to help develop, own and deliver technical animation solutions and pipelines, both for Flix’s own internal projects and our high profile co-development partners. As a key component of our Animation team, you will utilise your technical abilities and creativity to breathe life into game content, contributing to the overall immersion and player experience. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills, solid work ethic and a positive, pro-active attitude.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and implement robust animation systems, rigs, tools and technical solutions that drive high quality character, creature and gameplay motion from prototype to final implementation.
• Follow and uphold animation style principles, ensuring animation systems, rigs and workflows support consistent, high-quality content that aligns with the game’s aesthetic, gameplay, and narrative requirements.
• Actively participate in technical reviews, giving and incorporating feedback to improve animation systems, workflows and content quality.
• Follow technical animation pipeline best practices for rigging, implementation and optimisation, ensuring systems and content meet visual quality standards and run smoothly across target platforms.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate across discipline teams to help uphold the game’s quality bar and delivery requirements, whilst troubleshooting and refining systems to achieve high-quality, performant results in-engine.
• Work closely with your Leads and the Production team to help prioritize tasks and feedback, raise issues, and deliver high-quality work on time.

Essential:

• Proven animation experience within games, with a portfolio demonstrating a strong understanding of animation tooling, pipeline and quality.
• Good understanding of game animation pipeline in Unreal Engine, and animation tools such as animation montages, animation blueprints, state machines, blend trees and animation modifiers.
• High proficiency in relevant industry-standard software including rig creation and skinning in Maya, Blender or equivalent.
• Demonstrated understanding of animation fundamentals, such as weight, timing and readability, and how they inform effective rigging, technical implementation and animation systems.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work positively in a team environment.
• Take critique and guidance from others well, and be able to contribute your own input in technical reviews.
• Ability to manage your time effectively and own end-to-end delivery of your work.
• A passion for gaming and a drive to deliver visually stunning and captivating gaming experiences.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of retargeting and motion matching pipelines.
• Skills in tool creation and Python scripting.
• Experience with Advanced Skeleton.
• Experience with motion capture technology and working with/editing motion capture data cleaning/editing processes.
• Experience with facial rigging.
• Previous shipped title(s) within a relevant game art production pipeline.

What We Offer:

Based just outside Birmingham, Flix is made up of welcoming, passionate, active gamers that support one another in all aspects of development. We offer you to:

• Join a friendly, nurturing work environment with the opportunity to build games as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio.
• Work on market-leading AAA titles and IP with globally reputable studio and publisher partners.
• Be part of a sustainably growing game developer studio as we consciously expand our team and projects on a case-by-case basis.
• Learn within an independent studio across a wide range of projects and opportunities both internal and external.

Application:

Please send through your portfolio and cover letter. If your examples are from previous works with another studio, please make sure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners. Links to an online portfolio are preferable, otherwise we accept showreels via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms.

Send your application to – careers@flixinteractive.com

If you love making games and you would like to contribute to a team and project where your drive and skills will be welcomed and encouraged, then we would love to hear from you.

GDPR COMPLIANCE – When applying for this job you’re authorising Flix Interactive to store your application information and distribute it to the appropriate email inboxes of senior team members in order to review your role eligibility. Your application will be stored on a private cloud based online system for processing. If you would like us to update, delete or refine your application please email info@flixinteractive.com. Your request will be appended within 30 days of receiving your email. Please note – In compliance with GDPR law your data will be used for recruitment purposes only. We are unable to accept candidates requiring visa sponsorship for this opportunity at this time.

 

Flix Interactive Ltd is an equal opportunities employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, and marriage or civil partnership status. We also encourage applications from underrepresented groups in the gaming industry.