Gameplay Animator

3 weeks ago

Leamington Spa, United Kingdom Playground Games Ltd Full time

Job reference
- ocnelfwS_crt:1681118764987
- Company Name
- Playground Games Ltd
- Salary
- Competitive
- Location
- Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Industry sector
- Animation
- Job start date
- ASAP
- Posted date
- 10/04/2023
- Experience Level
- Junior-Associate
- Job type
- Permanent | Full Time
- Remote / Hybrid
- No

**Playground Games is looking for a Gameplay Animator to join our talented Fable team here in Leamington Spa on a Contract Basis.**

**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**:
As a Gameplay Animator at Playground, you are passionate, eager to learn and a keen problem solver. We are looking for a creative animator with a passion for games and a curiosity about how to best implement your ideas into the build.

Your experience in animation will have given you a solid foundation to build on and a developed eye for the breakdown and design of animation focused mechanics.

This is a contract role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa.

**What you'll do**:

- Create and iterate on high-quality key-frame and mocap animation assets and implement them in-game.
- Follow directions on content workflows.
- Be accountable for your own milestone planning.
- Collaborate in the running of mocap shoots staying mindful of technical limitations.

**What you'll bring**:

- Exceptional keyframe animation skills, demonstrable in a reel that showcases your expert knowledge of fundamental animation principles and acting skills.
- Demonstrate proficient command of weight, timing, and posing through manipulating motion capture data as well as key-frame animation.
- Passion for game dev, with an awareness of current titles and industry trends.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make "world-class games" with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry's most exciting first-party game studios.

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