Lead Environment Artist

2 Months ago • All levels • 3D Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Rebellion seeks a Lead Environment Artist to lead a team in crafting stunning visuals for a new Sci-Fi shooter. Responsibilities include team management (mentoring, performance reviews), asset creation (benchmark quality, adhering to technical constraints), game design document creation (project goals, environment details), world-building (terrains, structures, textures), production assistance (estimates, scheduling), process improvement (collaboration with stakeholders), and communication with central teams. The role requires strong leadership, proficiency in Blender or similar software (3ds Max, Maya), Zbrush/Mudbox skills, expertise in modeling techniques, and a deep understanding of lighting, composition, visual storytelling, and game development pipelines.
Must have:
  • Lead and manage environment art team
  • Proficient in Blender or equivalent
  • Skilled in Zbrush/Mudbox and PBR workflows
  • Strong understanding of lighting and composition
  • Experience with game development pipelines
Perks:
  • 22+ days holiday
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Life Assurance
  • Enhanced Pension Scheme
  • Mental Health & Wellbeing Support
  • Relocation package

Job Details

Description

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For over 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd. 

We are in search of a skilled Lead Environment Artist to take the reins in crafting the stunning visual landscape for an exciting new Sci-Fi shooter project! In this role, you will work closely with a creative team to craft stunning environments that set the tone and enhance gameplay. You will be responsible for leading a team of artists to create immersive and engaging worlds that truly captivate players.

This role is based at our riverside headquarters in Oxford, offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success. We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment. 

We believe in the power of face-to-face collaboration and encourage working from our Oxford headquarters. However, we understand that flexibility matters, so we’re open to discussing hybrid options based on individual needs. 

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of Environment artists with best practice people management techniques. Be an active mentor and role model for the environment art team. Work to maintain morale and create an atmosphere of creativity and enthusiasm. 
  • Proactively manage your team’s performance and professional development through performance review cycles giving constructive, actionable, relevant feedback.  
  • Guide the creation of benchmark quality assets which can be shared across the project in respect of the technical and artistic constraints. 
  • Take ownership in creating game design documents to outline project goals for environments, objectives, atmospheres, story, and style of the project. 
  • Guide world-building team to create terrains, structures, textures and engaging environments. 
  • Proactively assist with production estimates, scheduling and tracking. 
  • Challenge and help redefine technical and artistic processes by collaborating with key stakeholders, tech art and code to set long term technical goals. 
  • Communicate with centralised teams regarding photogrammetry, outsourcing and materials. 

Requirements

  • Solid experience in leading and managing a team of artists, with a focus on nurturing talent.
  • Proficiency in Blender is highly desirable; however, experience with other 3D software such as 3D Studio Max and Maya is also acceptable.
  • Extensive knowledge in 3D sculpting using Zbrush or Mudbox.
  • Skilled in an array of modeling techniques, encompassing high-resolution sculpting, hard surface modeling, and real-time PBR workflows.
  • Strong understanding of lighting, composition, and visual storytelling.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of video game development processes and pipelines.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders.

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

  • 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
  • Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
  • Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
  • Enhanced Family Leave
  • Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
  • Enhanced Pension Scheme
  • EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
  • Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

About Us

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers

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