Junior Animator in Oxford

We want you to join our passionate team as a Junior Animator and lend your talents to an exciting, yet-to-be-revealed project! This is a fantastic chance to play a pivotal role in a venture that builds upon Rebellion's legacy of success.

In the role of Junior Animator, you'll craft captivating gameplay animations for our projects, ensuring your work is not only cohesive but also aligns with the project's technical specifications and artistic vision. This exciting opportunity can be based out of either of our studios in Oxford or Warwick, offering flexibility, collaboration and the chance to work with a world-class team!

We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.

• Create consistent high-quality gameplay character and creature animations.
• Use your knowledge of timing, exaggeration, weighting/scale, ease in/out, overlapping actions, anticipation, secondary motion, framing, squash/stretch, arcs and perspective to create 3D animations.
• Good knowledge of best practices, production pipelines and workflows.
• Collaborate and interpret feedback from other disciplines to create engaging animations.
• Using knowledge of other game engines, develop an understanding of our custom engine and tools.
• Clean, blend, fix and polish motion capture data to a high standard.
• Track and update the progress of day-to-day tasks using JIRA.

• Good understanding of 3D software such as Maya, Motion Builder or equivalent animation software.
• Good understanding of acting techniques, cinematography, and visual storytelling.
• Able to animate realistic character and creature motion.
• Ability to collaborate with technical animators in relation to rigging and skinning.
• Good knowledge of production pipelines.
• You are a proficient game dev enthusiast with a passion for gameplay animation.
• Experience of Motion Capture data capturing, processing and pipelines.

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years - one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.

Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces. Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country.

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn't sound quite like you, we're recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we're always happy to receive speculative applications via our website.