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Cinematic Designer (Narrative Adventure)

A visionary game development studio founded in 2012, Firesprite builds innovative showcase titles for PlayStation platforms as part of the PlayStation Studios family.

Would you enjoy the freedom to create AAA games working from anywhere in the UK, including our Liverpool studio?

We're looking for a Cinematic Designer on dark, narrative driven blockbuster title with genre defining goals. This highly ambitious project takes atmosphere, narrative and player agency firmly into ground-breaking territory on next-generation Unreal 5 & hardware technologies.

The Cinematic Designer is a supporting role within the cinematic team, creating blockout and first-pass cinematics based on the requirements of gameplay and level design. They ensure that all cinematics are setup and maintained consistently throughout the project, from initial integration to final production delivery.

This is a great entry/early mid-level career role within the cinematics and animation team that offers career progress in artistic or technical directions. It is also a fantastic opportunity for applicants who are keen to break into the games industry.

Key Responsibilities:

Core duties involve initial creation and management of cinematic sequences whilst integrating and checking deliveries from multiple departments:

• Collaborate with Animation, Art, and Design to create exciting narrative cinematics
• Creating high quality blockout cinematics in Unreal
• Process and integrate animation data into cinematics

• Maintain and manage cinematics in a highly iterative environment
• Troubleshoot problems in a collaborative and communicative way

May also involve engine-side work or DCC-engine work, including but not limited to:

• Exporting and importing assets between engine and DCC (Digital Content Creator) packages.
• Diagnosing issues with animation or assets by examining metadata

Requirements

• Working knowledge of Unreal Engine 4
• Experience in cinematic creation using animations
• Fastidious, well-organised and detail-focused
• Work well with others and embraces different approaches to different problems.

• Take initiative, anticipating team needs and producing solutions for them.
• A strong desire to work in games and / games animation

Additional or Desired Skills

• Basic knowledge of 3d Modelling

• Knowledge of camera & lighting techniques
• Experience with multitrack video & audio editing
• Held a job in games and are looking to step-up into a specific department.
• Any visual scripting experience or a demonstrable interest in it.

Candidates should provide links to portfolio work in games/animation if available, but applications will be considered without a portfolio.

Benefits

• Private Healthcare Plan
• Bonus Scheme
• Enhanced Holiday Allowance
• Pension Plans
• Work From Home
• Training & Development
• Employee Assistance Programme - Counselling

Firesprite is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We welcome and encourage applications from all suitable applicants regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.