Framestore
is hiring
Senior Animator - London
This is an existing role within our team. As a Senior Animator, you'll be a key creative force in breathing life, weight, and personality into complex three-dimensional characters and photorealistic creatures. You’ll jump straight into the heart of our storytelling, crafting everything from nuanced, emotional facial expressions to epic, high-action combat performances. If you have a passion for mastering complex anatomy and love the challenge of making mythical beasts—whether they walk, fly, or breathe fire—feel completely grounded in reality, this is the place to do it.
What you’ll do
- Collaborate closely with your Animation Lead and Supervisor to produce premium, story-driven animation that elevates the pacing and style of the film.
- Partner with our Rigging and Pipeline teams, sharing direct feedback to refine character setups, enhance visual quality, and build smoother tool workflows.
- Animate both primary and secondary characters, ensuring every element in the frame possesses authentic motion and soul.
- Take ownership of your workflow, keeping production schedules transparent and hitting your deadlines consistently.
- Mentor and support less senior artists, sharing your craft and helping them grow their skills.
- Actively tackle creative changes and follow through constructively on supervisor notes and technical feedback.
Job requirements
- Significant experience animating on large-scale, photorealistic VFX projects, with a showreel that highlights exceptional creature and character performances.
- Deep production knowledge of Maya.
- A natural grasp of physical motion, weight, balance, and spatial awareness.
- A strong foundation in human and animal anatomy, which underpins how you animate complex fantasy muscle structures and locomotion.
- An understanding of character rigs, animation pipelines, and data transfer between production tools.
- Clear, constructive communication and a genuinely collaborative approach to working across distributed pipeline teams.
- Adaptability, an open mind for direction, and a calm, reliable focus when deadlines approach.
You might also have
- Experience working with, clean-up, or editing of motion capture data.
- A traditional background in sketching, life drawing, or classic 2D animation.
- A working knowledge of Modelling or basic scripting (Python/MEL) to streamline workflows.
Accessibility Statement
Our London studio is fully accessible, with step-free entry, accessible toilets on all floors, and quiet spaces available. We are committed to supporting disabled colleagues and providing an inclusive workplace for everyone.
The application deadline is **21st June 2026**.
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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