Senior Animator

Based in the heart of Leamington Spa, Pixel Toys have spent over a decade pushing the capabilities of mobile gaming. We have developed multiple award-winning titles, including: Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade and Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realm War. We’re now excited to be exclusively working on a new game, unlike ANYTHING we’ve done previously!

As a forward thinking and innovative studio we are always looking for new technologies and techniques to develop and use in our games and make them even more engaging experiences for our customers.

We are excited to continue to grow our team and are always on the lookout for highly talented and motivated individuals, who are passionate about gaming and excited to join us on our ambitious journey!

The Role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Animator to join us in delivering animation content and cinematics on a cutting-edge mobile title; bringing out the performance and embellishing mocap data for both body and face.

Working closely with the character art and technical teams, you will bring exciting characters to life and communicate rich personalities through your work. 

We'd love for you to join and make the very most of opportunities to contribute ideas, concepts and technical solutions to enable us to build great games.

About you:

As a Senior Animator you will be comfortable working with motion capture and editing dense keyframe data, as well as being familiar with the retargeting process. You will also have a good understanding of cinematography and the creation of dynamic camera sequences (such as Previz and Cinematics).

On top of this, your showreel will be one that demonstrates a high level of skill in animating human characters.

You will also be confident in your ability to support and provide cover for the Lead Animator; ensuring animation processes, pipelines and documentation are adhered to in order to maintain the smooth running of the Animation team and asset production.

Being a strong communicator, you will also bring a positive, proactive and collaborative attitude with you to our already established and knowledgeable team.

Experience working on medium to large scale projects is extremely desirable, as well as some knowledge on the Unity game engine.

What can Pixel Toys offer?

At Pixel Toys we are proud of the progressive, inclusive, and collaborative working environment we have created; a place where everyone has the opportunity to be themselves and is welcomed and valued for who they are and what they contribute. We have some fantastic benefits we offer our employees… Here are just some of them:

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually
• 25 days annual leave, excluding bank holidays
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Up to 3 additional long service days (duvet days!)
• Private Medical Insurance (including optical and dental)
• Company Pension scheme
• Death in Service benefit
• Regular socials including epic summer and Christmas parties!
• Staff training and development
• Quarterly Wellness days (On-site massages and more)
• Flexi-time working hours

Here at Pixel Toys we strive to provide an inclusive environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work and join in driving our joint success. Recruitment selection is based on skills, experience and a good Pixel Toys mission and values fit.