Animator

Overview

In this role you craft expressive character and creature animation to support Frontier’s storytelling in immersive game worlds. You’ll work closely with cross-disciplinary teams and report to the Lead Animator and Game Director to realise the creative vision. You’ll implement animations into the Cobra engine, contribute to a culture of feedback, and help maintain quality and workflow efficiency. This position offers hybrid or in-studio work with relocation support and a focus on impactful, player-centric experiences.

Pay / Benefits

• relocation support
• competitive salary
• annual bonus
• share option schemes
• private family healthcare
• flexitime working hours

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality character and creature animations in Maya
• Implement animations into Cobra engine
• Collaborate with Character Art, Code, Design, and VFX teams
• Take direction from Lead Animator and Game Director to realise vision
• Contribute to feedback culture and continuous improvement
• Solve production challenges with creative/technical solutions
• Maintain task tracking and asset validation to minimise bugs
• Provide feedback to external development partners
• Support junior team members and share knowledge

Key requirements

• Proven experience producing high-quality animation assets
• Strong proficiency in Maya’s character animation tools
• Excellent understanding of body mechanics, posing, timing, and acting choices
• Experience with creature animation and believable movement
• Familiarity with animation state machines
• Understanding of versioning software (SVN, Perforce)
• Strong time management and communication skills
• Basic knowledge of rigging pipelines

• Collaboration across disciplines
• Clear communication
• Mentorship and supporting junior team members
• Maya (character animation tools)
• Cobra engine
• Creature animation and believable movement

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