Lead Technical Animator
Job Summary
Job Description
Lead Technical Animator at Maverick Games in Warwick, UK. This full-time, hybrid role involves leading an experienced team in delivering high-quality animations for a new AAA IP. Responsibilities include mentoring and growing the team, ensuring efficient workflows, automating content creation, and pushing the boundaries of animation quality. The ideal candidate will be a creative problem-solver with a passion for AAA game development and a desire to innovate and collaborate with a talented team. The role requires strong leadership, technical animation skills, and a commitment to creating iconic, memorable characters and animations.
Must have:
- Lead and mentor a technical animation team
- Deliver high-quality animation solutions
- Automate and proceduralise content creation
- Problem-solving and innovative thinking
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams
Perks:
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Monthly learning day
- 30 days annual leave + bank holidays
Job Details
We are a developer-first video game studio, an environment where talented individuals are nurtured, inspired and flourish.
Key Responsibilities
Be Inspired.
- Join a team creating state of the art, iconic characters and animations that people will love and remember
- Help build an exciting new AAA IP using industry leading technology
- Collaborate with outstanding people across every discipline to produce a shared creative vision
Be Creative.
- Lead an experienced technical animation team to deliver solutions to the all of the content teams
- Mentor and grow your team, while creating clear communication between artists
- Use your problem-solving skills to ensure the team are able to achieve their best
Be Innovative.
- • Push the boundaries of quality in computer games to a new level
- • Automate and proceduralise content creation and workflows
- • Bring ideas that go beyond what’s been done before
Be Rewarded.
- Starting at £74,547 rising to £106,496 with experience
- Plus bonus, benefits and perks
- Monthly learning day
- 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
Take risks, be curious, be creative, be bold, be innovative, be you.
Be a Maverick.
About Maverick Games
Maverick is different.
This is a developer-first studio, an environment where talented individuals are nurtured, inspired and flourish. So take risks, be curious, be creative, be bold, be innovative, be you.
Be a Maverick.
This is a developer-first studio, an environment where talented individuals are nurtured, inspired and flourish. So take risks, be curious, be creative, be bold, be innovative, be you.
Be a Maverick.
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This is a developer-first studio, an environment where talented individuals are nurtured, inspired and flourish. So take risks, be curious, be creative, be bold, be innovative, be you.
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