Lead Cinematic Artist (Unreal Engine)

Location: Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Company

A game development company focused on building high-quality games through creative collaboration, strong teams, and efficient production practices.

What you will do

• Create engaging runtime and FMV cinematics that deliver excitement, drama, narrative clarity, and player feedback.
• Lead the internal cinematics team and external co-development partners, maintaining quality across production.
• Collaborate with Narrative, Animation, Audio, concept, and craft leadership teams to define cinematic direction and visual quality.
• Develop and improve cinematic pipelines, workflows, and review processes.
• Use previs, animatics, rough storyboards, motion capture, hand-keyed animation, and procedural animation to iterate on cinematic content.
• Work hands-on in-engine to build game-ready cinematics and improve production techniques.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of cinematography and editing concepts and their application to games.
• Experience communicating visual direction through previs, animatics, or storyboards.
• Technical understanding of cinematic production and in-engine workflows.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with internal teams and external studios and respond constructively to feedback.
• Experience using Unreal Engine for cinematics.
• Strong knowledge of Maya or MotionBuilder, Premiere or Resolve, and compositing software.

Nice to have

• Previous experience working in video games.
• Experience on motion capture or live-action sets with actors or camera crews.
• Experience pushing visual quality and improving production techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working culture with flexible working hours.
• Focus on work-life balance and support for family needs.
• Creative, inclusive, and collaborative working environment.
• Learning culture with opportunities to develop new skills.
• Competitive compensation package.