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Technical Animator

Sumo Digital

United Kingdom, Leeds - Red Kite Games·Contract

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The role, as advertised by Sumo Digital

  • Character Rig Creation: Using mGear and a Metahuman biped templates.
  • Maya Outfits Skinning: Focusing on character costuming and topology, with secondary motion and physics where necessary, in Unreal.
  • Prop Rigging: mGear rigging with simple controls for mechanical parts and pre-designed movement.
  • Vehicle Rigging: Building initial basic skeletons, and occasional mGear Animation rigs. Working with the modelling team and pipelines for the skeletal positions and Nanite attached-meshes.
  • Metahuman Head Rig Setups: Tweaking Metahuman Radial Basis Functions and any      other special requirements on scanning and character art.
  • Pre-simulated  Clothing Deformation: Setting up nCloth simulation rig to connect with animation and assets exported from cinematic sequences via content pipeline.

    • This role at a glance

    This is one of 28 animation roles open in England today, out of 546 live games jobs across the UK, and Sumo Digital is hiring for 10 other roles alongside it. The title doesn’t name a seniority, so it most likely sits at mid level — the posting’s requirements are the best guide to the experience wanted. Like most UK games roles it doesn’t publish a salary, and too few animation roles do for a fair comparison. Our salary guide covers typical ranges.

    Discipline
    Animation
    Level (from the title)
    Mid-level
    On gamesJobs since
    7 Sept 2026
    Other Animation roles in England
    27

    About Sumo Digital

    Sumo Digital is a Sheffield-headquartered developer founded in 2003, and part of Sumo Group, which was acquired by Tencent in 2022. It operates several studios across the UK as well as overseas, and has worked on titles including Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Crackdown 3 and many co-development projects for major publishers.

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