Senior Cinematic Animator - Freelance

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 Germany. 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.