Senior Material Artist

Description

Playground Games is looking for a Senior Material Artist to join our talented Fable team. 

ABOUT US: 

We are a premier Xbox Game Studio, crafting genre-defining games that delight players with their accessibility, visual allure, and pure fun. Our diverse and passionate team is currently working on the exciting reboot of the much-adored Fable franchise. 

ABOUT THE ROLE:  

As a Senior Material Artist, your role will be integral in collaborating with the Environment Art team to deliver high-quality materials and textures for assets, architecture, and biomes. 

You will strive for excellence in creating consistent, top-notch environment materials, elevating the visual content of our game. Your ability to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders will be essential in this role. 

Our ideal candidate is a proficient Material Artist with a passion for their craft, demonstrated skills in texturing, and a proven track record in the field. 

This is a permanent role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.   

WHAT YOU'LL DO:  

• Working closely with Leads, Directors and multi-disciplinary stakeholders, you'll establish texture and material workflows.  
• Create superior environment materials for props, architecture, geology, and terrain.  
• Participate in the creation of benchmarks for various asset types, defining workflows and processes for obtaining optimal results. Develop a base material library for use in asset creation. 

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:  

• Experience in material art creation, demonstrated by an online portfolio. Expertise in shader networks and procedural texturing. Familiarity with industry-standard software such as Zbrush, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, and Maya. 
• Strong knowledge of PBR workflows and an understanding of how materials behave in the real world.  
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, an ability to manage tasks, meet deadlines, address work-related challenges proactively, and a drive for learning and professional growth. 
• Experience working on console games or RPG games.
• Skills in photogrammetry and using scan data in your work.  

This is a fantastic opportunity to world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.  

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity.  We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.   

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members.  It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players.  We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.  

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work. 

If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com