Animation Director - Multiple Projects

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool, and Wakefield. Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them. So, if you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support flexible/hybrid working options.

We are on the lookout for an Animation Director to join our growing development team to make a key impact on multiple projects we have in the works, including a strategic shooter, a post-apocalyptic survival action game, and a dark Sci-Fi shooter.

This role would be a great opportunity for a Lead Animator who is looking to take the next step in their career. You will be working on creating innovating movements and behaviours on exciting unannounced titles. Our dynamic and quickly growing art team is looking for a highly motivated individual to help nurture the team growth and have maximum impact on our games.

We are looking for bold, ambitious, and talented candidates to work on Rebellion games and with trusted industry partners on genre-defining AAA IPs. Join us as we shoot for the stars!

Responsibilities

• Proactively manage the departments performance and professional development through performance review cycles giving constructive, actionable, relevant feedback
• Lead the Animation department with best practice people management techniques
• Collaborate with Head of Art, Designers, Programmers and Producers to balance creative vision with production realities.
• Create high quality, in game animations to the highest standard in line with the style and demanded by the project
• Verify the quality of animation in the game and make improvements where necessary to fit technical constraints and artistic direction.
• Be an active mentor and role model for the animation team. Work to maintain morale and create an atmosphere of creativity and enthusiasm

• Expert knowledge of Motion Capture, Motion builder, Maya, 3DS Max and Character Studio
• Easily able to animate realistic human motion
• Expert knowledge of rigging and skinning
• Able to produce high quality animation in different game engines including Unreal
• Expert knowledge of the video game development process and production pipelines
• Extensive knowledge of best practice people management
• Able to focus on own professional development and able to mentor individuals to develop skills and knowledge

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!

About Us

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.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. 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 offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

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. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

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. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers