Senior Technical Animator

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Role: We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to play a central role in helping lead the creation of technical animation solutions and pipelines, both for Flix s own exclusive projects and alongside our high-profile co-development partners. As a core component of our Animation team, you will utilise your technical abilities and creativity to breathe life into game assets, helping achieve the level of quality needed for characters, creatures, vehicles and objects in our games. You’ll be an enthusiastic and self-motivated team member who has a passion for making excellent game content. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills, solid work ethic and a positive, supportive attitude.

Responsibilities: Work with and guide the Animation team to design, implement and optimise expressive and believable character animations, creature movements, and object interactions – ensuring seamless integration from prototype to final implementation.

Collaborate across disciplines to develop and maintain animation rigs, tools, and workflows that support both artistic vision and technical efficiency, while troubleshooting and refining systems to achieve high-quality, performant results in-engine.

Help manage the day-to-day progress of animation development, supporting your team with project-specific processes and problem-solving.

Build upon and champion best pipeline practices for animation creation, optimization, and performance, ensuring animation meets visual quality standards and works smoothly across target platforms.

Work with the Production team to support the planning and delivery of animation content.

Lead by example, keeping an enthusiastic attitude for the project whilst motivating and supporting a diverse team.

Participate in staff interviews, onboarding, mentorship programs and performance reviews, fostering skill development and artistic growth.

Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and animation pipeline to continually push the boundaries of game animation and contribute fresh ideas to the team.

Actively participate in team meetings and contribute to discussions and feedback on game design and animation requirements.

Essential: Professional experience in a Senior animation role for games, with a strong portfolio demonstrating excellent understanding of animation pipeline and quality.

Highly skilled with Unreal Engine animation tools such as animation montages, animation blueprints, state machines, blend trees and animation modifiers, keeping up with animation technology such as Retargeting Pipelines, Control Rig, Motion Matching and Motion Warping.

High proficiency in relevant industry-standard software including rig creation and skinning in Maya, Blender or equivalent.

A creative eye and care for animation quality in your own work and the work of your team.

Demonstrated core Animation skills and command of fundamentals such as weight, timing, and posing, as well as understanding of character anatomy, movement, and performance principles.

Strong support-focused interpersonal skills, able to communicate, collaborate and mentor effectively.

Able to manage your time effectively, delegating and prioritising based on project need.

A passion for gaming and a commitment to delivering visually stunning and captivating gaming experiences.

Desirable: Shipped at least one title in a Senior position, within a relevant animation production pipeline Skills in tool creation and Python scripting.

Experience with Advanced Skeleton.

Experience with motion capture technology and data cleaning/editing processes.

Experience with facial rigging.

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.

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