Experienced Cinematic Artist - Contract in Royal Leamington Spa

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 diverse 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:

• Collaborate with the cinematic team to stage, compose, and sequence cinematics.
• Quickly iterating on pre-vis.
• Collaborating with other disciplines to produce cinematic concepts and colour scripts.
• Champion a strong vision and maintain quality, style and continuity, both visually and technically throughout the project.
• Conceptualising and implementing strong layout, cinematography and editing.
• Implementing cinematics into the game engine and testing to ensure that they fit.

What you'll bring:

• Understanding of visual and emotional storytelling.
• Developed skills in critical reasoning and emotional awareness within storytelling.
• Highly skilled in cinematography, editing, and technical knowledge.
• Experience with directing actors, or filming PCAP is a plus.
• Experience with cinematic or sequencing tools (Unreal, Unity, Motion Builder etc.)

This is a fantastic opportunity to contract with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios. Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment. We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reallocation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.