About Us

Paper Snake is a young animation studio with roots in Cambridge, UK, founded and led by two animators with many years of experience leading the animation on multiple acclaimed video games.

We are excited to grow our studio with talented and creative new people as we take on varied and challenging work from many different clients.

Paper Snake is all about creating world class animation - and as an animator you will play an essential role in delivering on that promise.

What you can expect at Paper Snake

We’re a start-up animation studio with two highly experienced industry veterans at the helm. You will be working closely with the team to bring to life myriad varied animation projects and growing your skills and confidence as an animator with daily mentoring and feedback from highly experienced leads.

This animator position is an excellent opportunity to get in early at a successful animation studio and nurture your skills with a wealth of different projects and a team that wants to invest in you.

Responsibilities:

• Take direction from clients and take notes from fellow animators in order to create high quality animation work within deadlines.

• Give feedback to fellow animators on their work in a professional and helpful manner.

• Solve technical challenges where they might arise.

You must be able to:

• Work effectively within a game engine and understand the concepts behind real-time animation.

• Make sound creative and acting decisions and communicate them with others.

• Seek and take on feedback from your peers and use it to grow and develop as an animator.

• Understand and implement the principles of animation and adapt those principles to different styles.

• Communicate effectively with team members.

• Solve problems independently and collaboratively.

• Manage your time effectively and work to deadlines.

About you

Essentials for this Position:

• Past experience in game development.

• Experience working in game engines (Unreal, Unity or proprietary).

• An animation-focussed show-reel which demonstrates an understanding and creative application of the principles of animation.

• Experience animating in an industry-standard 3D animation software package such as Maya, Motion Builder and Blender.

• The right to work in the UK (unfortunately we are unable to sponsor visas at this time).

Bonus things:

• Experience working specifically within Unreal Engine.

• Experience working with motion capture data.

• First person gameplay and cinematic animation experience.

• An understanding of the character rigging process.

• Be comfortable working in Autodesk Maya and Motion Builder specifically.

Paper Snake is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees.