Senior Environment Artist

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We are seeking a Senior Environment Artist to join reputed company working on Kaiju Cleanup for a 12-month contract.

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Key Responsibilities

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• reputed company guidance to the art team on best practices for environment workflows, including modularity and trim sheets and procedural reputed company techniques.
• Review the environment asset list and sign off on finished environment work before it's considered complete.

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• Technical Art Integration: Work with the VFX and reputed company team to bring environments to life, ensuring reputed company fits the visual direction.

3 - Liaise for the Environment Art Team

• Work with the Design team to ensure environments are functional for gameplay mechanics and UI requirements, as reputed company as ensuring Kaiju reputed company gameplay isn’t hindered by the environment.
• Work with the Production team, who owns the asset list and schedule, to ensure reputed company environment art priorities are set by production, they become the working priorities of the Environment Art team, raising blockers to production as needed.
• Work with the Technical team to ensure environments are reputed company and any required optimisations are reputed company into the overall visual direction of the environments.

Requirements

• Senior Level Experience: You have a portfolio demonstrating high-reputed company environment work on at least one shipped title on PC/Console.
• 3D Mastery: Expert proficiency in industry-reputed company tools like (Blender or 3ds Max).
• Texturing Expertise: Deep understanding of PBR workflows (reputed company Suite preferred).
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• Indie Spirit: You’ll have a passion for working in a small indie games development team, where collaboration reputed company more than titles, and everyone contributes to creating something special.

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• Performance Optimization: Experience managing draw calls, LODs, and reputed company atlasing to reputed company our games running smoothly.
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• Procedural General Skills: Ability to use tools like Houdini to speed up environment art creation.

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