Lead 3D Character Animator

6 Hours ago • All levels • 3D Animation

Job Summary

Job Description

Our Lead 3D Character Animators are skilled storytellers and motivators, responsible for managing their teams and delivering high-quality, characterful animated performances. They focus on comedic timing, acting choices, and meeting client and director briefs while maintaining production deadlines. This role involves leading a team, communicating with Animation Directors, managing time efficiently to meet deadlines, ensuring clear communication of story and acting choices, responding to feedback, mentoring junior animators, and acting as a role model. The animator will also troubleshoot issues with other supervisors and leads, provide updates on team progress, and address performance and wellbeing concerns.
Must have:
  • Lead a team of animators
  • Communicate with Animation Directors
  • Manage time and meet deadlines
  • Ensure clear storytelling and acting choices
  • Respond to feedback
  • Mentor junior animators
  • Act as a role model
  • Troubleshoot pipeline issues

Job Details

Our Lead 3D Character Animator are fantastic storytellers and excellent motivators. Their day-to-day focuses on managing their team, delivering characterful animated performances, expert comedic timing, charming acting choices, and maintaining production deadlines, whilst meeting that all important brief from our Directors and Clients. 

 
The successful candidates will need to be based in the UK. Currently, we're unable to consider VISA sponsorship.
This opportunity is due to start 28th July 2025, please note that this vacancy can close early if we receive a high number of applications.
 

Day to Day:

  • Leading a team of animators, and regularly communicating with the Animation Directors.
  • Managing your time efficiently to meet the deadlines of your assigned shots.
  • Arranging daily catch ups with your team to make sure they are on track and aware of their deadlines.
  • Flagging to the Animation Directors and Production in advance if there are any potential issues with deadlines or workload.  
  • Making sure your work is communicating the story, ideas and acting choices clearly from blocking through to the final animation.
  • Responding positively to, and acting on, notes and feedback from your Directors and Animation Directors.
  • Mentoring and coaching less experienced members of the team.  
  • Acting as a good role model for your team. Achieving the highest quality work in the time given, as well as responding well to fixes.
  • Talking up and down the pipeline to other Supervisors and Leads, troubleshooting any issues, as well as keeping Production and Animation Directors aware where appropriate. 
  • Mentoring the team and helping with their development, including participating in your team’s review sessions along with the Animation Directors.
  • Updating the Animation Directors on the team’s progress, communicating any concerns regarding the teams’ performance and wellbeing.

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About The Company

Blue Zoo has a worldwide reputation for expertly crafting characterful CG animation. We pride ourselves on creating work that everyone involved with is immensely proud of, in a studio that cultivates friendship & creativity in a positive environment. Over the last 25 years our animations have won many awards, including multiple BAFTAs, but that's just the start - we have big ambitions...

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