Our mission is to ignite that same feeling for players; the thrill of competition, the joy of community, and the belonging of finding your own corner of a larger world.

We're a group of experienced and ambitious developers, proud to be creating our first original IP: Arkheron. It is a fast-paced, competitive PVP game set in a surreal dark fantasy world where 15 teams of three battle their way up the Tower.

As our Lead Animator, you'll be accountable for how our game moves and how our animation discipline grows. You'll set vision, mentor artists, evolve pipelines, and hold the quality bar high for a competitive, combat-driven multiplayer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Inspire and guide the animation discipline, setting the creative vision and quality bar for characters and combat in a competitive multiplayer game.
• Lead and mentor a lean animation team, fostering autonomy, accountability, and growth through clear expectations, constructive feedback, and thoughtful development.
• Balance leadership with hands-on creation, contributing directly to gameplay animation while setting standards and pushing ideas forward independently.
• Partner with cross-discipline leads (design, engineering, art, production) to align animation with gameplay systems, technical realities, and the overall player experience.
• Own combat feel and moment-to-moment gameplay expression, ensuring characters are readable, responsive, expressive, and impactful.
• Drive production clarity and execution, prioritizing animation goals, pipelines, and team focus while balancing fidelity, performance, and schedule.
• Evolve animation systems and workflows, including thoughtful use of motion capture, keyframe techniques, and external partnerships.
• Guide and review external animation partners, maintaining a high craft bar across both internal and outsourced work.
• Contribute to studio-wide hiring, onboarding, and team-building efforts to grow and strengthen the animation discipline.
• Foster accountability and self-sufficiency, empowering the team to solve problems proactively while maintaining strong collaboration.

Requirements:

• Proven experience creating high-quality, in-game animations, ideally across multiple shipped titles.
• Energized by competitive multiplayer combat and understand the critical role animation plays in readability, feel, and fairness.
• Strong understanding of combat systems and how animation drives responsiveness and player satisfaction.
• Experience developing animation systems, ideally in new or evolving engines.
• Comfortable owning features end-to-end, from early exploration through final implementation.
• Highly skilled at conveying character through gameplay animation, not just cinematics.
• Push for animation excellence while always putting gameplay quality first.
• Thrive in tight-knit, highly collaborative teams and communicate clearly across disciplines.
• Self-directed, adaptable, and able to focus on what matters most for the game right now.
• Believe great games are built by great teams that put people first.
• Value trust, openness, humility, curiosity, and enjoy learning alongside others.
• Have a growth mindset and care deeply about helping teammates develop.
• Want to make a meaningful impact on a new IP and shape both the role and the studio as we grow.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with motion capture data and keyframe techniques.
• Familiarity with game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity.
• Strong understanding of animation principles and techniques.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote or hybrid environment.

We're Excited About You Because:

• You have a passion for creating high-quality, engaging animations that bring characters to life.
• You're a strong communicator and team player who can collaborate effectively with cross-discipline leads.
• You're comfortable taking ownership of features and driving them from start to finish.
• You're adaptable and able to pivot when necessary to meet changing project requirements.
• You're committed to delivering exceptional results and continuously improving your skills and knowledge.

This Might Not Be the Role for You If:

• You prefer to focus solely on individual contribution and don't enjoy coaching, mentoring, or guiding others.
• You're looking for a role where the animation vision is already fully defined and doesn't require iteration or collaboration.
• You're uncomfortable balancing creative ambition with gameplay, tech, and production realities.
• You prefer rigid role boundaries and aren't excited by wearing multiple hats in a small, evolving team.
• Competitive multiplayer games,or the tradeoffs they require,don't genuinely excite you.
• You're seeking a highly siloed environment rather than a studio where cross-discipline collaboration is constant and expected.

You'll Love Working at Bonfire Because:

• We embrace bold challenges with creativity and courage, making the tough calls to build a game we're proud to play every day.
• We keep fun at the core: we play Arkheron daily, staying grounded as players. If it's not more fun than yesterday, we fix it. We don't chase trends; we listen by playing.
• We stay truly independent, with decisions driven by the team , not by investors or a board.
• We thrive in a culture of passion, trust, and shared ownership; where transparency matters and egos don't.

Salary Range: $196,500 - $247,133

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In this role, you will deliver powerful and believable animation performances in first and third person gameplay. You will develop and apply strong knowledge of craft and content, from conceptualization to realization. You will work closely with Designers and members of all disciplines to ensure that we achieve responsive, immersive gameplay that feels rewarding to our players.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver powerful and believable animation performances in first and third person gameplay
• Develop and apply strong knowledge of craft and content, from conceptualization to realization
• Work closely with Designers and members of all disciplines to ensure that we achieve responsive, immersive gameplay that feels rewarding to our players
• Maintain communication across all relevant disciplines throughout the development of your areas of responsibility
• Be proactive in assessing and evolving both workflow and player experience for Apex Legends

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional game development experience
• A strong understanding of video game animation development
• Proficiency in a 3D animation package such as Autodesk Maya
• Experience creating behaviors and full body/bipedal animations and some knowledge of first person animation
• An understanding of motion capture editing (re-posing, re-timing and 'plusing' mocap data)
• Familiarity animating cameras, together with an understanding of cinematography
• Experience working closely with other domains - especially Designers, Engineers and Artists
• A proactive work ethic and a sense of responsibility for the continued success of Apex Legends
• Strong animation talent and experience outside of games will be considered

Pay Transparency - North America

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

Pay Ranges:

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) $91,100 - $126,900 CAD
• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) $101,700 - $151,900 USD

Benefits:

In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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Responsibilities:

• Integration of character assets and cinematics into the game engine
• Design, create and test character rigs
• Research and share knowledge of existing engines and animation packages within the industry
• Interact and collaborate with different teams (the art team, designers and programmers) to fulfill tasks according to production plan
• Design, create and test character rigs
• Maintain and test animation tools and pipelines
• Apply and maintain consistency for exported characters, props, and animations throughout the entire project
• Develop progressive techniques and process to solve character and animation challenges
• Proactive in problem identification and creating solutions
• Interact and collaborate with the different departments (Art, Programming, Production, etc.)

Qualifications:

• Solid technical animation experience in multiple shipped titles
• Expertise in rigging and skinning assets
• Good understanding of animation principles and anatomy
• Experience with Motion capture and data transfer
• Ability to understand technical implementations and limitations
• Proficient with standard industry tools like Motion Builder, 3ds Max, Photoshop
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Demonstrates the independency, efficiency and commitment to projects/tasks - A good team player with strong cross-group communication skills
• Good learning ability, looking for improvements consistently
• A gamer with the passion and confidence of creating top-quality games
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written or having the willingness to learn and improve
• Plus: Experience in MEL, Python, C# or C++ is a Plus

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Collaboration & Support

You'll work closely with animators, character artists, and gameplay engineers to ensure efficient workflows and high-fidelity animated content. You'll translate the technical requirements of the animation team into actionable solutions for engineering and pipeline teams. You'll diagnose and resolve complex animation-related issues including rig behavior, deformation quality, skeletal hierarchies, retargeting, and physics performance.

Rigging, Simulation & Animation Systems

You'll design, build, and maintain modular, animator-friendly rigs for characters, creatures, props, facial animation, and mechanical assets. You'll implement and refine physics-based systems including ragdoll setups, cloth simulation, spline dynamics, secondary motion, and procedural animation solutions. You'll develop scalable animation blueprints, state machines, blend trees, and control rigs in Unreal or Unity. You'll integrate motion capture data, build retargeting pipelines, and ensure consistent motion quality across diverse character sets.

Tools, Pipelines & Optimisation

You'll create and maintain tools, scripts, and automated pipelines that improve animation productivity and asset quality. You'll build validation tools to enforce naming conventions, skeleton standards, rig integrity, and performance budgets. You'll profile and optimise animation systems, rig performance, runtime solvers, and physics setups to work efficiently within hardware constraints. You'll participate in cross-discipline R&D to establish best practices for real-time deformation, procedural animation, and advanced simulation workflows.

Requirements

• Experience with Python, C#, MEL, PyMEL, MAXScript, Blueprints (Unreal), Editor Tools (Unity)
• Understanding of runtime animation systems, rig solvers, and physics components
• Familiarity with shader scripting (HLSL/GLSL) is a plus, particularly for deformation or skinning R&D

Skills

• Character & Creature Rigging
• Cloth / Hair / Ragdoll / Physics Setup
• Animation Pipeline Development
• Procedural Animation & Secondary Motion
• Performance Profiling & Optimisation
• Motion Capture Integration

Software / Tools

• Unreal Engine (Control Rig, Physics, Animation Blueprints)
• Unity (Mecanim, Animation Rigging Package, DOTS animation optional)
• Maya, 3DS Max (rigging, scripting, tool creation)
• Houdini (procedural rigs, physics, motion tools a bonus)

Benefits

• Only those with relevant working rights for Malaysia, and Indonesia will be considered. Sponsorship and relocation is not being offered as part of this package.

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As a Lead Animator, you will:

• Supervise, guide, and lead specific character animations, such as dances and emotes, in Maya and Unreal, using our ART toolkit
• Conduct Emotes from initial concept, through animation, to final implementation in Unreal Engine
• Collaborate with various art areas within Epic, as well as external partner teams
• Lead the growing library of cosmetic/emote animations offered to players, helping shape and direct the style and identity of Fortnite's animation

We are looking for someone with:

• A reel of animation demonstrating character and creature animations with keyframes
• Solid experience with Maya and game systems, such as Unreal Engine
• Good perception to achieve realistic and stylized movements
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Related skills, such as modeling, skinning, and rigging
• Experience with motion capture data
• Experience in leadership, with participation in the launch of at least one title
• User-focused profile, passion for what they do, focus on solutions, and an innovative attitude

Benefits:

We pay 100% of benefits for both employees and dependents. Our current benefits package includes medical, dental, and life insurance coverage. We also offer additional benefits, including daily meal vouchers and transportation benefits for local employees.

About Us:

Epic Games is a global company with 25 countries, 46 studios, and over 4,500 employees. For over 25 years, we have created award-winning games and technology that enables others to create visually stunning games and 3D content that brings environments to life like never before. Our award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers with the ability to create high-fidelity interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, but is also a tool adopted by content creators in various sectors, such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop notable games, we strive to form teams of world-class talent.

If you liked what you heard, come join something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy here.

Note to recruitment agencies: Epic does not accept resumes or unsolicited approaches from unauthorized third parties (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a validly executed and negotiated contract). We will not pay any fees to unauthorized third parties. More details about these matters can be found here.

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Playground Games is looking for a Senior Cinematic Animator to join our talented Fable team here in Leamington Spa.

ABOUT US:

As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a Senior Cinematics Animator, you'll work closely with our cinematics team to produce top-tier cutscenes and bespoke animation content. You will drive creative vision from previsualization through final polish, enhance narrative through cinematic storytelling, and ensure your animations are seamlessly integrated within our proprietary engine.

We’re looking for an expert animator who is passionate about storytelling, excels at conveying emotion through performance, and has a deep understanding of both facial and body performance. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with motion capture and hand-keyed animation, as well as familiarity with implementing cinematics in-engine.

This is a contract position at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa, operating under a hybrid work model. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Capture, solve, retarget, and polish both facial and full-body mocap data for cutscenes, ensuring high-quality, believable performances.
• Iterate rapidly on cinematic layout to enhance visual storytelling, refine pacing, and support narrative impact.
• Work closely with the Lead, Director, and cinematic team to incorporate feedback and align animations with the overall creative vision.
• Implement cinematics into our proprietary engine, ensuring seamless integration with gameplay and overall flow.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Impressive animation portfolio showcasing high-quality, realistic facial and body animations across multiple projects, ideally from AAA titles. A link to the portfolio website or an attachment with your CV is acceptable.
• Five or more years in animation, with a proven track record on at least two published titles.
• Proficient in body, facial and camera animation, motion capture clean-up and industry-standard animation software.
• A genuine enthusiasm for video games, narrative, and the creative process.
• Experience in cinematography, editing, or game engine implementation is highly desirable and will set you apart.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make world-class games with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.

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What you'll do

• Work closely with the director to understand the vision for gameplay and for cinematic scenes.
• Curate, edit, polish, and implement motion capture data into animation sets with a keen eye for quality
• Collaborate with designers to ensure animation is aligned with design for animation features

What you need

• A strong understanding of animation principles and anatomy, especially in relation to athletic movement.
• Proficient in standard industry tools such as Autodesk Maya/Motionbuilder.

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What you'll do

• Participate in motion capture recording sessions including daily production prep and capture system set up.
• Proficiently operate proprietary tools related to the acquisition systems.
• Learn proprietary art pipelines, new technology, and processes.

What you need

• Minimum 3 years of production experience in a related entertainment industry: Film, TV, Video Games, VFX, Theater.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in an on-set motion capture related role.
• Adept with motion capture systems and workflows (Vicon preferred).

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What you'll do

• Supervise and direct the creation of character-specific animations, such as dances and emotes, in Maya and Unreal, using our ART toolset
• Collaborate with various artistic disciplines at Epic as well as external partner teams
• Lead and evolve our growing library of cosmetic animations and emotes offered to players, while contributing to defining and advancing the style and identity of Fortnite's animation

What you need

• A demo reel showcasing a solid expertise in character animation and creature animation in keyframe
• Excellent experience with Maya and Unreal Engine's gameplay systems
• A good instinct for realistic and stylized movements
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a proven track record in a leadership role
• Relevant skills such as modeling, skinning, and rigging
• Experience working with motion capture data
• Experience in leadership that contributed to the delivery of at least one title
• User-focused, passionate, solution-oriented, and innovative

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What you'll do

• Work side-by-side with engineers to develop new animation solutions across DCC and Machine Learning.
• Design and implement cutting edge animation tools/pipelines for animators and designers in the digital content creation space.

What you need

• Proven experience as a Technical Animation expert showcased with motion matching and procedural solutions in released products.
• Proven experience in building animation tools and scripts in released products.

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What you'll do

• Manage the Capture Technical Art team
• Develop and extend production tools and codebases

What you need

• Expertise in Python development for production systems, APIs, and automation

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