Lead 3D Games Animator – Permanent

Europe Remote, Or Leamington Spa Office

We are looking for a Lead Animator with practical knowledge of game development.

You will be leading projects and working alongside the animation team to create believable high-quality character animations. A strong understanding of the principals is essential with a keen eye for adding character and personality to your work. You will be able to project manage, liaise with clients and manage multiple animators and their workload.

  • Have a minimum 7 years industry experience in video games, freelance experience a bonus
  • Create high quality, hand keyed character, creature and environmental animations.
  • Lead and collaborate with other disciplines to ensure the animations works as intended in the game.
  • Exceptional self management skills.
  • Manage / mentor internal and external animators.
  • Be pleasant to work with, communicate well, understand briefs, meet deadlines.
  • Be accountable & responsible, a clear communicator and problem solver
  • Ability to adapt and work with new technologies and workflows.
  • Ability to switch up styles from cartoony to realistic
  • Experience working with motion capture data and leading shoots
  • Capable of creating schedules and committing to delivery dates.
  • In depth knowledge of Maya and have an understanding and experience with rigging and skinning
  • Ability to implement your work in engine, working with state machines and other related concepts.
  • Experience with multiple game engines and multiple shipped titles. Experience in Unity and UE4/5 advantageous.
  • Be a team player, open to take and offer feedback.
  • Constantly strive to learn new / improved tools, techniques and processes all while honing your core craft. 
  • Attend awesome events.
  • Have the desire to help make awesome games

That is what we need from you, in return we will try to give you:

  • 4 Day weeks
  • Variety of work – video game cycles, cinematics, character acting for advertising
  • A competitive salary.
  • Relaxed office atmosphere in the heart of town.
  • Flexible hours
  • Remote within Europe

Please send us a concise but nice introductory email with “Lead Animator” in the subject, along with your resume, a link to your showreel to the following:

jobs@supersplinestudios.com

Unfortunately we can only respond to successful candidates due to the overwhelming number of applicants.

Senior 3D Games Animator – Permanent

Europe Remote, Or Leamington Spa Office

We are looking for an experienced Animator with practical knowledge of game development.

You will be working alongside the animation team to create believable high-quality character animations. A strong understanding of the principals is essential with a keen eye for adding character and personality to your work.

You will be joining the team at a crucial time for the studio as we grow and develop our animation pipeline, which will offer a great career opportunity for the right candidate.  

Responsibilities

  • Create high quality, hand keyed character, creature and environmental animations.
  • Work with the project leads and collaborate with other disciplines to ensure the animations works as intended in the game.
  • Ability to adapt and work with new technologies and workflows.
  • Work with both keyframe and motion capture data.
  • Problem solve typical game dev issues

Requirements

  • Strong key frame animation skills.
  • Strong character, creature and mechanical animation skills.
  • Ability to switch up styles from cartoony to realistic
  • Experience working with motion capture data.
  • Previous experience in games development, preferably with a shipped title under your belt.
  • Capable of meeting schedules and commit to delivery dates.
  • In depth knowledge of Maya.
  • Ability to implement your work in engine, working with anim graphs.
  • Experience in Unity and UE4/5 advantageous.
  • Be a team player, open to take and offer feedback.
  • Have the desire to help make awesome games.

That is what we need from you, in return we will try to give you:

  • 4 Day weeks
  • Variety of work – video game cycles, cinematics, character acting for advertising
  • A competitive salary.
  • Relaxed office atmosphere in the heart of town.
  • Flexible hours
  • Remote within Europe

Please send us a concise but nice introductory email with “Senior Animator” in the subject, along with your resume, a link to your showreel to the following:

jobs@supersplinestudios.com

Unfortunately we can only respond to successful candidates due to the overwhelming number of applicants.

Freelance Games Animator – 6 Months Starting Jan 2026

Europe Remote

Super Spline is looking for an experienced freelance gameplay animator to support us on current projects.

This is a 4 day week position, Monday – Thursday.

Duration: 6 months with potential for more, starting November 10th.

You MUST have games experience, and you MUST be in +/- 3 hours of the UKs timezones.

Role: freelance/day rate position, not fulltime employment (we are not looking for full time team members at the moment)

Work: Expressive, stylised, keyframe animation in Maya, be able to hit the ground running

Experience: Ideal candidate will have 5+ years gameplay animation experience with at least 1 shipped console / PC game.

Location: Remote EU based, must work within UK timezone.

Subject Line: Freelance Animator

Please include day rates, reel link, CV and physical location.

jobs@supersplinestudios.com

Unfortunately we can only respond to successful candidates due to the overwhelming number of applicants.

Why Us?!

Here at Super Spline we are a bunch of friendly, talented individuals, who thrive on creativity and the love of the art. We value every voice and we’ve worked hard to build a working environment that  is warm and welcoming. We hold ourselves to the high standards we set out to achieve, without doing overtime. We go out as a team every week for lunch, cinema trips for research and organise social events with other local animators. Having a relaxed atmosphere allows us to do what we do best: great animation, great development, and provide a great service to all our clients.

Variety is the spice of life, and that’s what we think is unique about Super Spline. We get short and long term projects, ranging from console to high end mobile games, VR experiences to trailers. Each project has it’s own challenges and creative problems to solve. Say good-bye to working on a project for 4+ years and it never seeing the light of day.

We offer:

  • 4 Day Work Week
  • A friendly relaxed team atmosphere with a commitment to open communication. 
  • No Crunch / Overtime. Ever.
  • No project fatigue.
  • 18 days paid holiday.
  • Your birthday off.
  • Christmas closure for 2 weeks.
  • Flexi time.
  • Private health insurance with dental, optical, mental health, cancer care and therapies.
  • Pension scheme.
  • Annual training subsidies.
  • Personalized development plan and dedicated work time for your progression.

Our positions are in our Leamington Spa studio or fully remote, or a hybrid. 

Please read the positions available below. If you feel like you could make an impact then please get in contact.

Please send your reels to [ jobs – at – supersplinestudios – dot – com ]

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