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Lead Technical Animator - Hybrid/Flexible

Are you an experienced Technical Animator looking for a new opportunity where you can make a real impact leading a team producing high-quality animation solutions?

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 as long as you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support remote and/or Hybrid working options.

We are on the lookout for a Lead Technical Animator to join our Animation Team, working on a mixture of unannounced projects.

As the Lead Technical Animator, you will research new technologies, innovations, and processes to improve Rebellion’s technical animation solutions. You'll lead a team of Technical Animators to reach their full potential and ensure the creation of high-quality character, body, and facial rigs.

You will collaborate with Animation Directors, Lead Animators, Designers, Programmers, and Producers to balance creative vision with production realities, as well as verify the quality of the animation pipeline and make improvements where necessary to fit technical constraints, and artistic direction.

This role would suit a Senior Technical Animator looking for an exciting challenge where you will be a mentor and role model for the Technical Animation team as well as working to maintain morale and create an atmosphere of creativity and enthusiasm within the team.

The Rebellion Animation team is responsible for bringing characters for our multiple titles to life. The teamwork with Design and Character Art to ensure that the animation is in line with the creative direction of the project.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Technical Animators with best practice people management techniques
• Work with PBR pipeline and advance game engine tools
• Research new technologies, innovations and create tools to advance animation efficiency
• Create or supervise the creation of high-quality character, body, and facial rigs with attention to the latest practices in facial animation techniques.
• Create documentation for any newly conceived processes
• Lead the Research and Development process

Requirements

• Able to create retargeting and batching tools to deal with a large amount of data
• Experience creating Facial Tools, Facial Mocap.
• Knowledge of Pose Space deformations
• Advanced knowledge of Matrices, Vector Math, and Linear algebra.
• Extensive knowledge of C++, Writing and compiling Plugins for Maya.
• Extensive knowledge of Maya API [C++ and Python], and MotionBuilder API
• Knowledge of anatomy and body mechanics
• Expert knowledge of 3D software such as Maya and MotionBuilder with a technical focus on rigging and skinning.
• Expert knowledge of the video game development process and production pipelines
• Extensive knowledge of writing tools with MEL/Python/PyMe and PyQt For GUI

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 26 days holiday + 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 make 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 to 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, neuro-diversity, 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 of our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers