Senior Environment Artist

1 Month ago • All levels • Environment Art

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Environment Artist, you will create high-quality visuals that align with the art direction, collaborating with level designers to bring environments to life. Your daily tasks will include collaborating with other departments to build environments, creating and maintaining architectural assets, producing high-quality visuals, and effectively communicating with all disciplines. You will also be expected to anticipate and mitigate potential issues. Creative Assembly is looking for an experienced Senior Environment Artist to join their team to work on their new project, a sequel to Alien: Isolation.

Must have:

Experience in hard surface environment creation.
Excellent modeling and asset creation skills.
Excellent visual awareness and artistic ability.
Experience in a professional creative environment.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Good to have:

Knowledge of custom normal workflows.
Passion for sci-fi environment art.
Strong technical skills within Unreal Engine.

Perks:

Additional medical and dental health insurance.
Additional holiday allowance.
Annual discretionary studio bonus.
Career development pathways and training.
Wellbeing support.
Free games and merchandise.
Free breakfast every day.
Office massages.
Studio parties.

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Job Details

Creative Assembly is looking for an experienced Senior Environment Artist to join our talented team to work on our new project, a sequel to Alien: Isolation.

This role will be based at our studio in Sofia, Bulgaria and can be offered as hybrid / in-studio / fully remote within country of employment. Further details can be discussed during the recruitment process.

As a Senior Environment Artist on the team, you will be creating high quality, performant visuals in line with art direction while collaborating with level designers to bring environments to life.

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

Collaborate with other departments such as level design to build environments all the way from conception to a final quality.
Create and maintain a library of hard surface modular architectural assets.
Produce high quality, performant visuals, as an integral part of the team.
Communicate well, with all disciplines, and be well organised.
Anticipate issues and work actively to mitigate problems.

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

Essential

Highly experienced environment artist with specialization in hard surface modular environment creation.
Excellent modelling and asset creation skills.
Excellent visual awareness and artistic ability.
Experience of working in a professional creative environment.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Knowledge of:

UE5, Modelling packages such as Blender or equivalent, Substance Designer.
Modular environment construction and hard surface modelling techniques.
Experience working and collaborating with other departments to create compelling play spaces.
Strong awareness of industry technology trends

Desirable

Knowledge of custom normal workflows. (AKA Weighted normals.)
Passion for sci-fi environment art.
Strong technical skills within Unreal Engine.

Note: Applications for this role must include a portfolio/showreel (or link to a portfolio/showreel). Applications that do not have this information will not be considered.

About Creative Assembly
Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.

We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities.

We are located in Horsham, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.
We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:

We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:
Additional medical and dental health insurance for you, your partner and kids, life in-surance, and free health care screening
Additional holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, as all Bulgarian Bank holidays
Annual discretionary studio bonus
Defined career development pathways and personalised training support including; SEGA Dev Day, internal masterclasses, prestigious creative workshops, on-site training with renowned specialists and global conference attendance
Wellbeing support with an employee assistance programme
Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
Free breakfast every day - toast, cereals, yoghurts, fresh fruit, soft drinks and more in our fully stocked kitchen
Office massages
Studio parties for you and your family; such as our Summer and Christmas parties, Children’s day party, wrap parties for game releases

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: SEGA Europe Limited and our studios do not accept unsolicited candidate introductions from unauthorised third parties. For the avoidance of doubt, SEGA Europe is not liable for any fees, compensation or any other costs associated with the introduction of a candidate or recruitment services unless and until an agreement has been duly executed. Further details can be found here.