Senior Cinematics Artists - Leamington Spa, United Kingdom - Playground Games Ltd

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  • Company Name
  • Playground Games Ltd
  • Salary
  • Competitive
  • Location
  • Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
  • Country
  • United Kingdom
  • Industry sector
  • Animation
  • Job start date
  • ASAP
  • Posted date
  • 12/02/202 Experience Level
  • Mid-Senior Level
  • Job type
  • Permanent | Full Time
  • Remote / Hybrid
  • No

Playground Games is seeking a Senior Cinematic Artists who will be responsible for story and character driven cinematicsneeded to realise the vision for Fable, our open world action RPG.

About us:


As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun.

We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre.


About the role:

Your cinematic expertise will cover a broad range of key areas including cinematography, lighting, performance direction and editing.

You're required to have strong skills in storytelling, cinematic theory, framing and composition as well as a deep understanding of character development and performances.

This is a contract role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa.


What you'll do:


  • Collaborate with the cinematic team to stage, compose, and sequence cinematics.
  • Quickly iterating on previs.
  • Collaborating with other disciplines to produce cinematic concepts and colour scripts.
  • Champion a strong vision and maintain quality, style and continuity, both visually and technically throughout the project.
  • Conceptualising and implementing strong layout, cinematography and editing.
  • Collaborating to implement highly curated cinematic lighting.
  • Implementing cinematics into the game engine and testing to ensure that they fit.
  • Updating documentation

What you'll bring:


  • Understanding of visual AND observational storytelling.
  • Developed skills in critical reasoning and emotional awareness within storytelling.
  • Highly skilled in cinematography, lighting, editorial.
  • Experience with directing actors is a plus.
  • Experience with cinematic or sequencing tools (Unreal, Unity, Motion Builder etc.)


This is a fantastic opportunity to make a world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry's most exciting first-party game studios.


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