Framestore is hiring

Senior Animator

Senior

Contract

Hybrid in Melbourne, Australia

The multi-Oscar-winning creative Film & Episodic studio, at Framestore has worked with some of the greatest storytellers in film today. Collaborating with directors and producers across the complete filmmaking process to help design, plan and create beautiful images, we focus on finding innovative creative solutions to support their vision and set new standards for visual effects in cinema.

Framestore combines talent and technology to bring life to everything we create. Driven by creativity and inspired by the future, we set out every day to reframe the possible.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Animator, you will collaborate closely with our Animation Leads and Supervisors to deliver high-quality keyframe animation. Your work will focus on creating compelling, story-driven, and action-packed moments that align with the show's style and pacing.

Animate primary and secondary characters and elements.
Meet production schedules and deadlines.
Submitting shots for review and follow through with notes and feedback if required.
Work efficiently both independently and as part of a collaborative team to complete assigned shots.

At Framestore, we highly value creative collaboration and are looking for individuals who share this commitment.

Job requirements

Significant experience in creature and character animation.
Previous experience in a senior role within the industry.
Ability to work independently and provide guidance to more junior Animators.
Thorough knowledge of Maya.
A strong understanding of physical motion, weight, balance, texture, and form.
Familiarity with typical rigging setups and animation pipelines.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Exceptional attention to detail.
Proven ability to work effectively under pressure.
Reliability and good timekeeping skills.
Ability to embrace direction and adapt to changes.

You might also have

A knowledge of Modeling, Rigging and Mel/Python scripting.
A traditional animation and/or art background.
Knowledge of human and animal anatomy as well as life-drawing skills.

Framestore

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We work with you to create amazing images that entertain, communicate, influence and shape people’s views about subjects as diverse as health, music, films, television and many aspects of our society.

We create our work by getting to know what you are aspiring to do with the images we are creating with you, by getting to know your business and its strategy, and by striving to always deliver images that delight and not only hit your brief but often exceed your expectations – those are the milestones we measure ourselves by.

With more than 600 colleagues our team and skills range from computer science graduates, through to world class producers, CG artists who innovate in both production methodology as well as imagery, software developers and creators who have deep insight to how to apply often complex technology solutions to the creative process.

We work with partner clients each year in most parts of the world, with colleagues often on location in over a dozen countries in any one year.

We continue to be pleased to see our work recognised both for the success that they help create for our clients (in box office or product sales) but also for artistic and strategic achievement – all three elements which we strive to achieve each time we work with you.

Our clients include most leading advertising agencies, Hollywood studios, and major brands such as Nokia, Coca Cola, Nestlé, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Volkswagen and Cadbury.

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