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Senior Environment Artist

Scotland, United Kingdom (On-site)

Senior Environment Artist

39 Minutes ago • 5 Years + • 3D Art • Undisclosed

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Job Description

As a Senior Environment Artist, you'll create high-quality 3D assets and environments for integration into the game engine. Collaborating with the Lead Environment Artist, Environment Art team, and Production team, you'll ensure timely delivery of visually compelling and performant in-game assets. Responsibilities include creating high-resolution 3D environment art (natural and architectural), combining traditional art with next-gen techniques, staying updated on game engine capabilities, partnering with engineers to enhance the art pipeline, ensuring assets meet technical and artistic requirements, managing personal deliverables, mentoring other artists, adhering to project art direction, maintaining quality and consistency, and populating the game world using a world editor.

Must have:

High-quality 3D asset creation
5+ years game industry experience
Proficiency in 3ds Max, Maya, or equivalent
Experience with Substance or similar
Game engine experience (Unreal, Unity)
Strong art fundamentals and communication

Perks:

Unlimited coaching & therapy
Stock Options
Pension scheme
Socials
25 Annual Leave + 3 bank holidays
Private Medical Insurance
Healthcare Cash Plan
Cycle2Work Scheme
Electric Car Charging

As a Senior Environment Artist, you will create a wide range of 3D assets and environments, implementing these into the game engine.

Working closely with the Lead Environment Artist, Environment Art team and the Production team, you will ensure that your work is delivered on time and has both and exceptional look and performant in game.

Department: Art
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Edinburgh
Workplace type: Onsite
Reporting To: Kelvin Janson

Key Responsibilities

Work closely with the Lead Environment Artist to create high quality, high resolution 3D environment art, including both natural and architectural environments.
Combine traditional art aesthetics with next-gen 3D authoring techniques to create visually compelling 3D spaces.
Stay up to date on the capabilities and workflows in Game Engine and other authoring tools as provided and used by the company.
Partner with engineers and tech artists to help further enhance our art pipeline and grow our effectiveness in rapid iteration game development.
Ensure assets and environments conform to the defined technical and artistic requirements.
Work with production staff to manage personal deliverables, ensuring they meet the defined objectives, defined quality bar, and schedule.
Mentor and inspire other artists.
Understand and adhere to the project art direction.
Maintain quality and consistency across your work to meet objectives, quality bar, and schedule.
Using a world editor you will populate and set dress our game world using a variety of 3D assets.

Requirements

Experience in the creation of high quality, high resolution 3D assets, UV maps and textures.
A minimum of 5 years professional experience as an artist in the games industry.
Strong experience with current 3D modelling tools such as 3ds Max, Maya or equivalent.
Strong experience with texture creation/authoring tools such as Substance.
Experience working with a game engine (Unreal, Unity or similar).
A strong understanding of art fundamentals.
An appreciation for architecture and design.
Strong communication skills with the capability to successfully work across multiple teams.
A positive, collaborative and professional working attitude.
Strong English skills, both written and verbal.

Benefits

Our Global Benefits & Perks

Unlimited coaching & therapy — with Oliva, to support your mental health
Stock Options — everyone owns a piece of our success
Pension scheme — up to 5% employer matched contribution to finance those golden years
Socials — office & remote events, play sessions and company-wide parties
And even more benefits based on your location!

If you’re based in the UK

25 Annual Leave + 3 bank holidays - we’re flexible with most bank holidays so you can use the time to celebrate what’s important to you
Private Medical Insurance - full cover with AXA
Healthcare Cash Plan - Level 3 cover with Medicash
Cycle2Work Scheme - lease a bike through us and save on tax too!
Electric Car Charging - electric car charging at our Port office in Edinburgh, Scotland.

About Build A Rocket Boy

Build A Rocket Boy is an independent game developer, headquartered in Edinburgh Scotland, with operations in Budapest Hungary, the Netherlands, France, and California USA. Led by game developer Leslie Benzies, Build A Rocket Boy’s team includes hundreds of the industry’s brightest development talents with the shared vision to create new and innovative entertainment experiences. Build A Rocket Boy’s first project is EVERYWHERE – a new multi-world game experience that blurs the line between reality and the digital world.

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