Location
Chancery Lane, London, United Kingdom

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Framestore brings together world-class producers, artists, and technologists to craft visually striking work across advertising, episodic, and immersive productions. Our teams blend creative ingenuity with cutting-edge technology to deliver high-end visual effects, immersive storytelling, and premium content for global clients, brands, and broadcasters. Framestore combines talent and technology to bring life to everything we create. Driven by creativity and inspired by the future, we set out every day to reframe the possible.

This is a new role within our team. As an Animation Supervisor, you will oversee the overall animation quality, guiding the creative vision to ensure every sequence stays perfectly on brief. You will cast the right animators for the right moments, bringing out the best and most consistent performances from your team. As a creative leader, you will train and mentor a talented team of animators, taking full ownership of the quality of their work.

You will partner closely with rigging and pipeline departments to improve character setups and tool functionality. On a day-to-day basis, you will set clear visual benchmarks and provide strong examples for your team to follow, collaborate with the Animation Lead to craft compelling, character-driven moments, lead daily reviews with the animation team, confidently attend client reviews, communicate ongoing progress to production, and ensure consistent achievement of all show milestones.

Our London studio is fully accessible, with step-free entry, accessible toilets on all floors, and quiet spaces available. We are committed to supporting disabled colleagues and providing an inclusive workplace for everyone.

Experience
- Thorough, working knowledge of Maya
- Previous experience leading or supervising a creative team
- Solid understanding of typical rigging setups, animation pipelines, and data transfer
- Strong problem-solving skills and excellent attention to detail
- Great organisational and communication skills, with the ability to hit deadlines reliably
- Genuine commitment to collaborating openly across different departments

About you
- Brilliant eye for physical motion, weight, balance, texture, and form
- Adaptability and willingness to learn new technical processes

Qualifications
- While formal qualifications are not specified, strong technical skills and leadership experience are essential

Desirable
- Previous experience working with motion capture data
- Working knowledge of Modelling or basic scripting (Python/MEL) to streamline workflows