• Lead the design and execution of performance animation for key story sequences and interactive cinematics, overseeing facial performances, dialogue scenes, and action-driven performances to ensure emotional authenticity and cinematic quality. • Collaborate closely with Art, Design, and Engineering teams to establish and maintain production pipelines and quality standards for performance animation, ensuring consistency in character emotions and visual storytelling. • Define production guidelines and animation standards for facial performances, dialogue scenes, and character acting, driving scalable and efficient content creation workflows while continuously improving quality and productivity. • Leverage experience from the film and game industries to optimize motion capture and keyframe animation pipelines, solve technical challenges, and enhance the overall quality and expressiveness of character performances.

Title: Junior 2D/3D Motion Designer Location: London England GB Hybrid Job Description: We’re a social-first, end-to-end content production agency working with ambitious global brands across entertainment, gaming, and culture. Since 2008, we’ve built a digital-first offering that blends strong creative thinking with channel expertise to deliver work that performs. We’re a values-driven agency that believes great work comes from supported people. That means rapid progression, industry-leading benefits, and a culture consistently recognised as one of Campaign’s Best Places to Work The Role We’re looking for a Junior 2D/3D Motion Creative to join our expanding motion team, working closely with Motion Designers, Creatives, and Video Editors across a range of social and campaign-led projects, with a strong focus on mobile gaming. This role is ideal for someone early in their career who’s passionate about 3D motion and character animation in Blender, but who’s also comfortable flexing into 2D motion design. You’ll be developing your craft across both disciplines, building confidence, speed, and creative judgement in a fast-paced studio environment. What You’ll Be Doing - Creating 3D motion content using Blender, with a particular focus on character animation, modelling, scene building and texturing. - Supporting projects that combine 3D, 2D motion, and graphic design - Animating for social-first formats, paid media and short-form storytelling - Working from creative direction and storyboards, while contributing ideas and solutions - Collaborating closely with designers, animators, and producers - Learning how to adapt work across different platforms, formats, and audiences - Taking on feedback positively and iterating work to a high standard Requirements Essential Skills & Experience - Strong working knowledge of Blender, with a clear interest in character animation - Ability to create or adapt 2D motion using After Effects - Working knowledge of the Adobe creative suite - A solid understanding of design fundamentals - layout, typography, colour, composition, and visual hierarchy - Good animation principles: timing, easing, weight, and clarity - A portfolio that shows strong creative potential and technical execution - Passion for gaming, animation, and social/creative trends - A positive, collaborative attitude and eagerness to learn Nice to Have - Experience with rigging characters (or desire to improve in this area) - Basic understanding of social formats and digital-first content - Interest in sound, editing, or storytelling - Experience in other 3D Software like C4D or Maya You’ll Thrive Here If You Are - Curious, ambitious, and keen to grow your skills across 2D and 3D - Comfortable asking questions and learning from feedback - Organised and able to manage your time with guidance - Excited by fast-paced creative environments and collaborative work - Passionate about games, animation, and motion design Benefits - Named in Campaign Magazine's Best Places to Work 8 years running - Hybrid working - 2 day in the office per week (office location - Goodge Street Tube station) - Private Healthcare & Life Insurance, 25 Days+ Holiday - Team Mini breaks in the UK and abroad, Regular Socials - Culture: Open, Engaged & Inspirational

Role Description We're looking for a Contract Lighting Artist to join the team. You'll be responsible for crafting the atmospheric, dread-soaked lighting that defines the experience. From flickering floors to pitch-black vents, you'll set the emotional tone of every space players enter — working closely with art direction, environment, and VFX teams to bring each area to life. Responsibilities - Design and implement optimized lighting across all game environments, leveraging Unreal Engine’s GPU Lightmass workflows alongside selective stationary lighting to drive mood, tension, and narrative through light and shadow. - Collaborate closely with environment, VFX, and art direction teams to ensure lighting is consistent with the visual vision of each chapter. - Develop and maintain lighting standards, style guides, and best-practice documentation for the team. - Optimize lighting setups for performance across target platforms without sacrificing visual quality. - Mentor junior and mid-level lighting artists, providing feedback and fostering a culture of craft and iteration. - Work with the Art Director to prototype new lighting looks, effects, and dynamic systems for key story beats. - Contribute to post-process pipeline development including bloom, lens flares, and color grading within Unreal Engine 5. - Participate in art reviews and actively engage in cross-discipline critique sessions. Qualifications - 4+ years of games industry experience with at least one shipped title. - Must have Unreal Engine 5 lighting and GPU Lightmass pipeline. - Strong understanding of real-world lighting, photography, and cinematography principles. - Proven ability to create horror, suspense, or atmospheric lighting styles. - Experience optimizing lighting for real-time performance on PC and console. - Solid communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment. Nice to Have - Experience with dynamic lighting and scripted cinematic sequences. - Background in Environment Art or Cinematics. - Knowledge of color theory and LUT pipeline for semi-stylized, PBR games. - Experience mentoring or leading a lighting team. - Passion for the horror genre and atmospheric storytelling. Benefits - Profit sharing. - Medical, dental, and vision insurance. - 401(k) matching. - FSA/HSA. - Paid time off. - Sick time. - Holidays. - Parental leave.

Role Description Ghost Story Games is seeking a talented Senior Technical Level Artist to join us on Judas, the highly anticipated game led by Ken Levine (System Shock 2, BioShock series). Unique in its creative vision, Judas is built upon novel technology by which the visual world, gameplay, and story unfolds in meaningful, dynamic ways. For the Senior Technical Level Artist role, you should be experienced in a breadth and depth of generalist real-time CG expertise, including: - Modular level layout and scene composition - Modeling - Materials - Lighting You should be passionate about telling compelling stories through environmental art, while thoughtfully crafting spaces and visuals with the needs of gameplay in mind. It is essential the Senior Technical Level Artist is fully immersed in the novel technical pipelines, world and storytelling systems of Judas. Join us and play a key role in Judas’ success! Qualifications - Established experience in the game industry as a Senior Artist, preferably with experience working with larger, complex productions - Proficient art and technical experience within a real-time Game Engine (Unreal 4 is a plus) - Experienced eye for form, line, value, rhythm, composition, and crafting deliberate visual hierarchy reads - Familiarity with performance evaluation and optimization - Experience with effective team-based iteration techniques - Ability to learn and understand technical tools and systems Requirements - Proactive problem solver that enjoys cross-department collaboration - Ability to thoughtfully pitch both creative and visual ideas, as well as technical and process improvements - Experience and mindfulness towards both individual and team efficiency - Proven ability to work on more challenging cross-functional tasks with a high degree of ambiguity and autonomy Benefits - The pay range for this position in Massachusetts at the start of employment is expected to be between $109,100 and $145,200 per Year - Total compensation package may include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards - Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits