Brighton Zoo is looking for a Junior Generalist to join our team in Brighton.
As our Junior Generalist, you'll work across multiple disciplines on our diverse games, animation and digital content projects. You'll be passionate about design and animation, with an excellent level of drawing ability, good colour sense, and a solid understanding of animation and design principles.
Working within our friendly team, you'll take concept briefs and turn them into varied visual assets, character designs, logos, thumbnails, motion graphics, mixed media and animation, from first sketch to finished output. You'll be comfortable switching between projects and formats, from games and linear animation, creating content that is digital-first and destined for online and social platforms.
Day to Day:
- Collaborate with our senior artist to create varied visual assets for games, animation and digital content, following established art direction and style guidelines.
- Produce animations for characters and other on-screen elements; bringing personality, performance, and comedic timing to your work.
- Composite animation in After Effects, combining characters, backgrounds, footage, effects and titles into polished final shots.
- Create new character designs for new games and IP developments.
- Design and animate motion graphics including titles, transitions, overlays, and other on-screen graphics.
- Contribute concept art, sketches and storyboards to visualise ideas during early development and for pitches.
- Create visually appealing, intuitive UI elements such as menus, buttons, icons and other graphics.
- Work with existing brands to interpret and replicate characters accurately, including optimised game animations.
- Create key visuals and thumbnails, and adapt content for different platforms and aspect ratios.
- Collaborate with other team members to ensure assets integrate smoothly into games and animations.
- Help the team create new ideas for live briefs.
- Embrace opportunities for continuous learning, staying up to date with industry trends, tools and techniques.
- Manage your tasks and time efficiently to meet deadlines.
