About the role
Position Overview
Role: Gameplay Animator
Employer: Flix Interactive
Location: UK Remote or West Midlands-based
Type: Full-Time Contractor
Visa Sponsorship: Not available for this opportunity
Responsibilities
- Design, create and implement expressive and believable gameplay-driven animation content, for characters, creatures, and other in-game objects – from prototype to final implementation.
- Follow and uphold animation style principles, maintaining consistency across the project and ensuring content aligns with the game’s aesthetic, gameplay, and narrative requirements.
- Actively participate in Animation reviews, giving and incorporating feedback to improve the quality of game content.
- Follow best pipeline practices for content creation, optimization, and performance, ensuring work meets visual quality standards and runs smoothly across target platforms.
- Pro-actively communicate and collaborate across discipline teams to help uphold the game’s quality bar and delivery requirements.
Essential Qualifications
- Proven Animation experience within games, with a showreel demonstrating strong keyframe animation, and a demonstrated knowledge of game loops and gameplay feel.
- Strong understanding of game animation content creation for Unreal Engine, including the full rigging, skinning, animation and implementation process.
- High proficiency in relevant industry-standard software including Maya, Blender or equivalent.
- Demonstrated core Animation skills and command of fundamentals such as weight, timing, and readability.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work positively in a team environment.
- 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 Qualifications
- Experience with third person combat gameplay and high-fidelity paired animations, such as enemy executions.
- Specific expertise in Unreal Engine implementation, and knowledge of tools/techniques such as Control Rig, Sequencer, Motion Matching, IK and Blend Spaces.
- Familiar working with motion capture data to enhance and refine animations and experience executing mocap shoots.
- Skills in facial animation.
Benefits and Studio Culture
- 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 Requirements
- Please send through your portfolio and cover letter.
- Links to an online portfolio are preferable; otherwise, showreels via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms are accepted.
- If examples are from previous works with another studio, ensure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners.
Compliance and Diversity
- GDPR Compliance: By applying, you authorize Flix Interactive to store application information and distribute it to senior team members for review. Data is stored on a private cloud-based system and used for recruitment purposes only.
- Data Requests: To update, delete, or refine application data, email info@flixinteractive.com. Requests are processed within 30 days.
- Equal Opportunities: Flix Interactive Ltd is an equal opportunities employer committed to inclusion and diversity. Applications are welcome 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. Applications from underrepresented groups in the gaming industry are encouraged.