VFX Artist (Freelance)
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VFX Artist (Freelance) at Ninja Theory is a Senior IT contract role in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with hybrid working. JobGrid presents the posting in normalized, comparable role terms and preserves the original-language source boundary while keeping the employer description separate. The source was posted and last checked on 2026-06-02, and applications go through JobGrid to the original public application page with non-personal referral parameters.
- Senior-level IT contract role for VFX Artist (Freelance).
- Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom; workplace: hybrid.
- Source posted and last checked on 2026-06-02.
- Salary is not provided in the supplied payload, so no salary context is shown here.
About us: Ninja Theory is a six-time BAFTA award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK, and part of Xbox Game Studios. Our diverse and welcoming team values collaboration, quality, and excellence. We strive to maintain an inclusive culture that empowers deep focus, rewards creativity, and supports personal and professional growth.
Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are committed to bringing together the best talent in the industry to help us fulfil that promise.
Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity.
Your role: We're looking for an experienced VFX artist to create cinematic VFX on a freelance contract of up to 12 months. During this time, you will collaborate closely with multiple disciplines working across both cinematic and gameplay scenes to help bring our creative vision to life. You will create and implement exceptional quality cinematic VFX assets in Unreal Engine, ensuring they are both high quality and performant. Being able to work from our Cambridge studio when required would be an advantage, but not essential.