Climax are one of the leading creative lights of independent games development with a great history, but our future is even more exciting with awesome titles such as Silent Hill Origins, Ferrari, Viva Piñata for Windows and an unannounced title for Konami as well as our groundbreaking original next-gen game for the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Climax truly is an exciting and fun place to work.

Climax are looking for a Combat Experienced Animator with a proven track record in designing and implementing combat gameplay to join one of our experienced teams in creating an exciting new action game. This is an excellent opportunity for the right individual to help drive the gameplay experience for an original action game title.
Our ideal candidate will be:

•       An exceptionally good character animator with extensive combat experience.
•       A motivated individual with attention to details and respects deadlines &    budgets. Who is task driven with excellent time management skills and with the ability to prioritise their work as well as the team members beneath them.
•       Able to supply well-presented examples or a pertinent show reel that demonstrate your knowledge and execution of timing, weight, expression, posing in relation to combat based animations etc.
•       Able to showcase a wealth of different combat based animation skills from realistic through to monster and quadrupeds.
•       Experienced enough to have worked on one or more published titles at an experienced/ senior level of responsibility as a character animator.
•       Professionally conversant in Maya.
•       Professional and effective at communicating directives,
 •      Experienced at troubleshooting technical problems and creating solutions with regards to 3D animation in a game engine, from constraints to exporting, whatever the problem may be.


Extensive benefits and relocation packages are available

Please send a current CV/ resume to Stuart Godfrey on This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

We look forward to hearing from you.