NaturalMotion
Who We Are
NaturalMotion is an award-winning UK game studio dedicated to crafting world-class mobile experiences. Alongside our continued live-service development on CSR Racing 2 (#1 drag racing series of all time), our team is stepping into its next chapter with an ambitious, unannounced project. Honoured for eight consecutive years as a GamesIndustry.biz Best Place to Work in the UK winner and named a Top 50 UK Game Maker in 2025 and 2026, we offer a collaborative studio culture backed by the global reach of Zynga and Take-Two Interactive.
Position Overview
We are looking for a Senior Technical Animator to join our team in supporting our next unannounced project. You will work alongside the Animation Team helping to deliver and bring to life our amazing characters.
We embrace a hybrid work environment. Within this role, you would work 2 days per week in our London office and the remaining days at home.
What You'll Do
- Responsible for creating and maintaining the rigging and technical animation pipeline for the projects.
- As part of the Animation Team, you will play a key role in implementing characters.
- Reporting to the Lead Animator and Art Director.
What You Bring
- Demonstrate expert knowledge of the skeletal pipeline from Rigging to exporting finalised characters into game, with a speciality of understanding mobile limitations (both bipedal and non-bipedal).
- Expert in how animation systems work in Unreal Engine, debug, modify and being able to create them in game engines from scratch.
- Have expert knowledge of retargeting and shared skeleton pipeli