This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Cinematic Animator - Freelance based in Italy.

As a Senior Cinematic Animator, you will bring characters and props to life across high-energy cinematic sequences designed to captivate players.
You will create, refine, and polish animation using Maya before integrating assets into Unreal Engine.
Working closely with cinematic artists, you will help choreograph dramatic action and storytelling moments with clarity and impact.
The role combines creative animation expertise with technical skills across rigging, skinning, motion capture, and animation pipelines.
You will contribute to ambitious game productions within a fast-paced, globally distributed development environment.
This is an opportunity to work with modern game-development technologies while collaborating with talented professionals across Europe and beyond.
The position is fully remote and offers flexible working arrangements, with core collaboration hours aligned to CET.

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Animate characters and props for cinematic sequences, with a particular focus on high-energy action, dramatic storytelling, and clear visual communication.

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Create, refine, and polish high-quality animation in Autodesk Maya before preparing and integrating it into Unreal Engine.

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Collaborate closely with cinematic artists and other production team members to choreograph compelling action-driven sequences.

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Apply technical animation expertise, including character and prop rigging, skinning, and preparation for cinematic use.

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Clean up and refine motion-capture data to achieve polished, production-ready animation.

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Troubleshoot and optimize animation workflows and pipelines between Maya and Unreal Engine.

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Contribute to a fast-paced production environment while maintaining high standards for animation quality and consistency.

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Work independently to manage assigned ani

📌 Senior Cinematic Animator (Italia)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 Italia