Technical Artist optimizing and integrating visual assets while collaborating with artists and developers for gaming projects. Ensuring performance and quality in the production lifecycle of slot games.
About the role
- Lead 3D Artist specializing in creating diverse assets and leading a team for game development. Join our award-winning team in Middlesbrough, UK, blending creativity and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with Art Director and Production in coordinating art resources, schedules and priorities based on project needs
- Provide direction to asset team artists for aesthetic and technical considerations
- Will need to fully understand and work around existing art pipelines
- Be hands on with the art team producing benchmark assets to style and brief of project
- Required to help lead the production and creation of art assets for the projects
- Able to communicate and deliver assets cooperatively and independently within a 3rd Party production environment
- Has expertise with PBR, lighting, rendering, and material authoring
- Collaborate with Production to prioritize work, identify issues in JIRA, and escalate them to production, ensuring tasks have sufficient information
- Reviewing work to meet the technical requirements and following best practices for the highest quality
- Proactive in finding answers and able to clearly communicate issues and direction to the team
- Capable of owning development of, and delivering, content while leading by example
- Ensure the team maintains high-quality artistic results and milestone delivery, while encouraging effective communication and professionalism
- Receives and provides critique in a professional manner
- Able to manage and mentor career development of 3D Artists at various skill levels
- Leading a team of talented artists
Requirements
- Has proven game cycle experience as a Senior or Lead Artist
- Shipped at least one title as a Senior or Lead Artist
- Experience in working with 3rd Party project
- Advanced understanding of 3D packages, Photoshop, Substance Designer/Painter, Zbrush and Marmoset Toolbag
- Excellent knowledge with unwrapping, modifying, and creating UVs
- Passion for highly detailed 3D assets and texturing for game ready assets
- Demonstrates excellent foundational skills, including composition, design, structure, silhouette and colour theory
- Excellent understanding of the hard-surface art pipeline, dependencies and overall scope of the project
- Demonstrates an ability to work with detailed concept art or reference art materials
- Excellent leadership and mentoring abilities, as well as interpersonal skills
- Organised and practices good time management skills
- Finds creative solutions for technically challenging tasks
- Experienced in managing direct reports
- Experienced working in an Agile workflow
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave (20 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday)
- 1 day leave for your birthday and 1 day leave if you’re moving house
- Up to 10 days discretionary annual leave during our end of year break
- Potential for annual performance bonus
- 5 additional days annual leave for 5 years service and a further 5 days annual leave for your 10 years service milestone
- A brand new, state-of-the-art studio facilities that includes a market hall serving nutritious, subsidised meals, round-the-clock gym access, an auditorium and more
- Free breakfast options, juice, hot drinks and fruit
- Employee referral bonus (up to £2000!)
- Electric Car Scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Free game codes, game swag and merchandise
- Family-friendly leave available
- Christmas Saving Scheme
- Free parking
- Best-in-class tools and workflows so you can focus on creativity Professional development and wellbeing
- Vitality Private Healthcare, discounts and rewards for you, your spouse and children (upon the successful completion of your 6 month probationary period)
- Access to mental health and wellbeing support via Plumm (includes 4 free video therapy sessions per month for both the employee and up to 3 family members aged 18+), unlimited text therapy, courses, meditations
- A personalised development plan with dedicated support tailored to your growth and goals
- Access to an accredited Academy providing professional qualifications (and access to 500 UK discounts and offers via TOTUM when registered as a student)
- A dedicated Workplace Experience team responsible for work environments, workplace and quality of employee life services to help foster collaboration, creativity and innovation
- In-studio wellbeing programmes and People team support
- Free activities via our Bus Tours programme (where on occasion, partners and children are welcome to join you)
- Many team events to celebrate team and game milestones
- Sponsored team activities including football, basketball, book club, movie club and more
- Opportunity to contribute to our internal Employee Diversity and Equality Network
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