Senior Technical Animator

Flix Interactive is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Technical Animator to lead the creation of technical animation solutions and pipelines for exclusive projects and co-development partners. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing character animations, developing and maintaining animation rigs and tools, and ensuring high-quality, performant results in-engine. The ideal candidate will support the animation team, champion best pipeline practices, and contribute to the planning and delivery of animation content.

Must Have

• Professional experience in a Senior Animator role for games
• Strong portfolio demonstrating animation pipeline and quality understanding
• Highly skilled with Unreal Engine animation tools (montages, blueprints, state machines, blend trees, modifiers)
• Proficiency in Maya, Blender, or equivalent for rig creation and skinning
• Excellent understanding of animation fundamentals (weight, timing, posing, character anatomy, movement, performance)
• Strong support-focused interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage time effectively, delegate, and prioritize
• Passion for gaming and delivering captivating experiences
• Passion for skills development and animation technology (Retargeting Pipelines, Control Rig, Motion Matching, Motion Warping)

Good to Have

• Shipped at least one title in a Senior position
• Skills in tool creation and Python scripting
• Experience with Advanced Skeleton
• Experience with motion capture technology and data cleaning/editing
• Experience with facial rigging

Perks & Benefits

• Friendly, nurturing work environment
• Opportunity to build games
• Work as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio
• Team of welcoming, passionate, active gamers
• Supportive team environment

Role and Purpose:

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to play a central role in helping lead the creation of technical animation solutions and pipelines, both for Flix’s own exclusive projects and alongside our high profile co-development partners. As a core component of our Animation team, you will utilise your technical abilities and creativity to breathe life into game assets, helping achieve the level of quality needed for characters, creatures, vehicles and objects in our games. You’ll be an enthusiastic and self-motivated team member who has a passion for making excellent game content. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills, solid work ethic and a positive, supportive attitude.

Responsibilities:

• Work with and guide the Animation team to design, implement and optimise expressive and believable character animations, creature movements, and object interactions – ensuring seamless integration from prototype to final implementation.
• Collaborate across disciplines to develop and maintain animation rigs, tools, and workflows that support both artistic vision and technical efficiency, while troubleshooting and refining systems to achieve high-quality, performant results in-engine.
• Help manage the day-to-day progress of animation development, supporting your team with project-specific processes and problem-solving.
• Build upon and champion best pipeline practices for animation creation, optimization, and performance, ensuring animation meets visual quality standards and works smoothly across target platforms.
• Work with the Production team to support the planning and delivery of animation content.
• Lead by example, keeping an enthusiastic attitude for the project whilst motivating and supporting a diverse team.
• Participate in staff interviews, onboarding, mentorship programs and performance reviews, fostering skill development and artistic growth.
• Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and animation pipeline to continually push the boundaries of game animation and contribute fresh ideas to the team.
• Actively participate in team meetings and contribute to discussions and feedback on game design and animation requirements.

Requirements:

• Professional experience in a Senior Animator role for games, with a strong portfolio demonstrating excellent understanding of animation pipeline and quality.
• Highly skilled with Unreal Engine animation tools such as animation montages, animation blueprints, state machines, blend trees and animation modifiers.
• High proficiency in relevant industry-standard software including rig creation and skinning in Maya, Blender or equivalent.
• A creative eye and care for animation direction in your own work and the work of your team.
• Excellent understanding of animation fundamentals such as as weight, timing, and posing, as well as understanding of character anatomy, movement, and performance principles.
• Strong support-focused interpersonal skills, able to communicate, collaborate and mentor effectively.
• Able to manage your time effectively, delegating and prioritising based on project need.
• A passion for gaming and a commitment to delivering visually stunning and captivating gaming experiences.
• A passion for skills development, keeping up with animation technology such as Retargeting Pipelines, Control Rig, Motion Matching and Motion Warping.

Desirable Skills:

• Shipped at least one title in a Senior position, within a relevant animation production pipeline
• Skills in tool creation and Python scripting.
• Experience with Advanced Skeleton.
• Experience with motion capture technology and data cleaning/editing processes.
• Experience with facial rigging.

Application & Portfolio:

Please include your CV, portfolio and cover letter (optional) within your application. If your examples are from previous works with another studio, please make sure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners. Links to an online portfolio are preferable, otherwise we accept showreels via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms.

Send your application to – careers@flixinteractive.com

What We Offer

Based just outside Birmingham, Flix offers a friendly, nurturing work environment with the opportunity to build games as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio. The team is made up of welcoming, passionate, active gamers that support one another in all aspects of development.

If you have the drive and skills for making games and think you have what it takes to work within our team then we’d love to hear from you.

For more information visit our site – Flix Interactive

Alternatively, call our recruitment team on – 01527 958 177

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