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.

Must Have:

Bonus Points:

• Experience creating content for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or other online platforms, and an understanding of what makes content perform well.
• A desire to perform vocally, such as character voices or scratch dialogue.
• Video editing experience in programs such as Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
• Working knowledge of Toon Boom Harmony.
• Knowledge of 3D animation and Unity.
• A passion for cinematography, video games or pop culture.

We are Brighton Zoo! The marriage of Plug-In Media & Blue Zoo - a brand new animation studio by the sea, designed for a new era of kid’s digital content.

We are going through an exciting period of growth and are building a studio that is full of amazingly talented, happy artists & production crew, making work they are proud of, which in turn makes a small contribution to a happier world. Brighton Zoo believes that a healthy balance in our lives - whatever our situation - is key to supporting the wellbeing of our staff. We offer flexible working to support this.

What we’ve got for you (Benefits)

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Online wellbeing programme
• Christmas Closing Period 
• Free Sandwich or Soup Thursdays! 

Social events throughout the year including the odd beach BBQ & an annual trip to Brighton Fringe Festival

Brighton Zoo is committed to creating and nurturing an inclusive studio that promotes and values diversity and invites everyone to ‘bring their whole selves’ to work. We believe that companies that truly embrace and value diversity, and create an environment where everyone from any background can do their best work, are better companies. 

To be engaged our people have to feel included and valued. We work hard to build and nurture a culture where inclusiveness is embedded in the way we work, not just an initiative. We strive to engender a studio community that feels a deep sense of pride and commitment that transcends any role, department or level and works together to produce excellent and engaging work.