Senior Environment Artist

As a Senior Environment Artist, you will create and develop AAA quality environments and terrain that populate our worlds. You will work with the Lead Artist to develop new processes and ultimately forge environments that follow the requirements set out by the Art Director. You will also work with your team and producers to plan and track your work, identify issues and solutions to increase the visual quality of our games.

Your role collaborates with all art and design teams to help define and assist flexible content pipelines, working collaboratively on new cutting-edge features, whilst always searching for ways we can improve.

You will:

●       Create visually amazing environments and terrains that make the game come to life and enhance the gameplay.

●       Be proactive, methodical and identify dependencies and risks alongside the Production team and the Art Leads.

●       Regularly communicate with the Art team to discuss progress and review work.

●       Be aware of potential risks to the project and bring it to the attention of management

●       Collaborate with all disciplines to understand their requirements and propose solutions.

• Experience as a senior supporting a lead within a team and guiding other artists
• Knowledge of multiple art and animation pipelines
• Proven experience in creating high quality and optimised foliage assets for AAA console games
• Excellence in creating believable and natural hard surfaces
• Strong experience creating rocks and organic assets
• Excellent knowledge of creating PBR correct textures and materials
• Professional experience in industry standard art tools such as SpeedTree, Zbrush, Blender/3DS Max/Maya, Photoshop, Substance Designer/Painter, World Machine and Gaea
• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
• Worked on 2 games through the full game production pipeline as a Senior Artist, preferably AAA titles
• Bachelor’s degree in art, design, technical discipline or other relevant training
• Shipped AAA game on PC

Bonus points if you have

• Experience in Houdini
• Experience creating hard surface assets
• Worked on high-end film quality projects
• Experience in real-time lighting
• Passion for photography and other art form

• International AAA game projects
• Access to cutting-edge hardware
• Flexible/hybrid working
• Great increasing holiday benefits including Christmas Shutdown
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private Healthcare Plan including dental and optical support, mental health, online GP
• Pension Plan
• Life Assurance
• Flu Jab Vouchers
• Regular Team Incentives and Social Events
• Brand new Guildford office
• Opportunities to work with our Netherlands office