Senior 3D Environment Artist | New Games

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Job Description:

As a Senior Environment Artist, this will be a pivotal role crafting 3D environments for one of our ground breaking mid-core mobile games. This position places you at the heart of an innovative art team, where you will breathe life into the extraordinary and unforgettable places that exist within our game's universe.

Collaborating with expert Visual-Development Artists, Technical Artists, and Level Designers, you will build immersive gameplay spaces that will captivate millions worldwide. This role is sophisticated and creative, packed with opportunities to refine your craft and explore new avenues.
 

We pride ourselves on our close yet welcoming team dynamic, encouraging a culture of mutual respect, passion for our creations, and a dedication to excellence in our craft. We care about each other, the games we create and how we create them.
 

Join us, and be part of crafting experiences that resonate and captivate the hearts of gamers everywhere. We can't wait to meet you !
 

Your role within the Kingdom
 

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the team to develop in-game 3D environments and art content that aligns with the project's objectives, game vision, and player expectations, adhering to the designated art style.

• Work in close coordination with designers to guarantee that art contributions seamlessly complement game design specifications

• Engage with the planning for the project ensuring your art is delivered according to its needs.

• Work with all crafts needed to ensure your 3d Art is delivered to a specification that offers excellent on-device performance, within the required technical budgets.

• Support the mentoring and development of more junior artists as required.

• Support any outsourced art efforts as required.
   

Skills to create thrills

• Proficient in crafting high-quality 3D environments and props, encompassing both organic and hard surface modeling techniques

• Experience in how environment art fits into the production of game development in collaboration with other crafts and fields, especially, Visual Development, Tech Art and Level Design.

• Experience in adding ‘mood & atmosphere’ into an environment with scene composition and lighting.
   

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of form, structure, architecture and composition.

• Strong understanding of efficient UV layout, PBR pipeline, tileable/trim textures and modular level creation methods.

• Strong understanding of colour, light and how complex surfaces are created in-game.

• Knowledgeable in the technical aspects of creating in-game environments, covering the full end-to-end pipeline, and adept at implementing art into a game efficiently, with a focus on clean, structured, and optimized processes

• In-depth knowledge of industry standard software for the creation of 3d art and any industry relevant game engine where it can be implemented into game.
   

Key Attributes

• A passion for making high quality games in a cross-discipline, collaborative team.

• A proactive contributor, keen to learn and develop your skills as well as sharing your knowledge in the team.

• Excellent skills in communication and organisation.
   

Nice to have

• Experience in working with outsourcing for 3D environment art

• Experience with Unity and mobile game development.

• Technical skills (shader creation, particles, VFXs, and/or procedural content creation tools)

• Abilities in concept art or visual development

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.