Initially a 12 month fixed term contract.
Remote work available within the UK only.
As a Senior Environment Artist, with an understanding of the importance of environmental narrative, you will play a pivotal role in shaping immersive and visually stunning game worlds.
Collaborating closely with designers, other artists, and technical teams to bring concepts to life, ensuring that each environment is engaging and believable.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining a very high standard of modelling, texturing and PBR material creation.
- Crafting realistic, natural and hard surface, interior and exterior environments from white box.
- Working closely with other disciplines to ensure environments form believable game worlds.
- Ensure the style is in keeping with the overall art direction.
- Implementing correct file naming and directory structure requirements.
- Conducting research to inform environment development ensuring that created work is representative of real world examples.
- Mentoring more junior members of the team.
Requirements
- Proven experience creating and dressing large scale realistic environments within professional game development.
- Proficient in the use of Substance Painter.
- Strong attention to detail with a good eye for world building and storytelling.
- Strong texturing ability.
- Ability to work autonomously, self-critique work and respond accordingly.
- Ability to supplement a provided brief with your own research and ideas while ensuring delivery of the brief’s core requirements.
- Understanding the necessity of an iterative approach.
- Able to respond positively and proactively to constructive feedback.
- Professional and approachable when communicating with stakeholders.
- Solid understanding of the art creation process and its place within the broader game development pipeline.
- Experience working with source control.
- Willingness to adapt to using various software and engine/s as required.
- Experience using a range of game engines is desirable.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Christmas shutdown
- Flexible working hours
- x 4 Half-day Fridays (during the summer months)
- A day off on your birthday
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Comprehensive Medical Insurance
- Weekly Yoga Class
- Anti-Crunch ethos
- Referral Bonus Scheme
- Bike2Work Scheme
- Social Events/Project Launch Wrap Parties
- Charity Events
- Branded merchandise
About the company
Wushu Studios is an independent game development studio. We're a team of creative developers based in the heart of Liverpool. Our journey is driven by the thrill of creating cutting-edge games and delivering unparalleled experiences to players worldwide. Our success is attributable to our team of diverse, world-class and dedicated individual, who are the soul of our studio. Our collaborative efforts have given rise to a spectrum of games, from enchanting RPGs to blockbuster AAA titles. We pride ourselves on the long-standing relationships we’ve developed with global publishers and incredible studios along the way.
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