LogInCalling all game artists! Looking for your next career move? Connect with top employers. Browse 80 Level’s Weekly Jobs Digest.
Lighting Artist at CAPCOM
Your duties:
- Partner with the Creative and Art Directors to develop a compelling lighting look in service of the game design
- Create in-game and cinematic lighting scenarios to match the visual targets defined by the Art Direction
- Partner with Technical Artists to prototype new lighting workflows and technologies
- Place and tune lighting and atmosphere-related FX such as god rays and fog
- Author post-effects including exposure, bloom, tone mapping, and color grading
- Partner with Engineers and Technical Artists to improve workflows
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3+ years of lighting production experience for game/film
- In-depth understanding of CG lighting technology and techniques
- Experience working with physically based lighting systems
- Strong understanding of physical materials and their interaction with light
- Expert knowledge of lighting theory including color space, exposure, man-made vs natural light, etc.
- Excellent understanding of color and color theory
- Strong understanding of composition and cinematography
- Self-motivated with good communication skills
- Strong lighting portfolio
Rigging Artist at CAPCOM
Your duties:
- Partner with Animators to understand and define the requirements of the rig
- Create high-quality, easy-to-use rigs for Animators
- Develop tools to support the Rigging workflow
- Develop tools to maintain the rigs during production
- Work with artists to create assets that meet the technical requirements
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3+ years of rigging experience for games/film
- Strong knowledge of rigging techniques in Maya
- Excellent knowledge of anatomy
- Python scripting proficiency
- Positive, self-motivated team player with good communication skills
- Ability to think and plan ahead
- Great problem-solving skills
- Efficiency driven
Senior Environment Artist, Games Studio (Blue) at Netflix
We’re looking for a creative and highly-skilled Senior Environment Artist to help us forge the creative vision of a brand-new AAA multi-platform (PC, mobile, etc.) game. This is a unique opportunity to be at the heart of crafting and bringing to life worlds for one of Netflix’s first generation of internally developed original games.
As a Senior Environment Artist, you will help us define overall quality and construct 3D environments to deliver consistent, high-quality environmental assets and locations. The ideal candidate is a well-organized artist with a strong, hands-on background with a devotion to sharing and mentoring. This role will involve producing striking, high-quality, and optimized AAA environments.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 6 or more years of professional experience in computer-generated art for games or entertainment with a minimum of 3 years as a Senior Environment Artist or Senior World Builder.
- Shipped at least one AAA game.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A portfolio with examples of environment asset creation and/or world-building.
- Experience building environments from initial blackout to final polish/ship.
- Ability to efficiently model, sculpt, and texture both organic and hard surface assets to a high degree of quality.
- Ability to create assets for a range of art direction styles, from photo-realistic to stylized.
- Expert knowledge of Maya (or similar 3D modeling software), Photoshop, ZBrush, and Substance 3D Painter.
- A strong understanding of world-building workflows, technical constraints, and asset creation using Unreal Engine (or similar game engine).
- Experience with material creation and PBR workflows.
- A strong understanding of scene composition, scale/proportion, and lighting.
- Excellent communication skills and enjoy collaborating with other team members and departments.
- A strong work ethic, self-motivated, organized, and works well with deadlines.
Associate Lead/Lead Environment Artist at Playground Games
Playground Games is looking for an Associate Lead or Lead Environment Artist to join our talented Fable team here in Leamington Spa.
As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre.
As Associate Lead Environment Artist, you’ll oversee a specialist area within the Environment Art team, working in conjunction with the Art Directors and Lead Environment Artist to deliver work for the team and ensure our high-quality bar is realized. You will also have experience in the technical aspects of your craft as well as being comfortable communicating with technical departments.
Qualifications:
- Strong experience in environment art creation and optimization.
- Expertise in industry-standard tools for 3D modeling and sculpting.
- Good knowledge of architecture and best practices for engine requirements.
- Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- An ability to work effectively in a team environment and under tight deadlines.
- A proven record of motivating and leading a team of artists.
Senior Level Artist at Techland
Techland is looking for a talented and experienced Level Artist to join one of our teams in Wrocław or Warsaw. You will help to create amazing environments the players will be exploring and admiring. You will be moving mountains, raising cities, and breathing life into in-game locations thanks to aesthetically pleasing composition and clever use of light and detail.
Qualifications:
- at least 5 years of experience in level design or lighting video game levels;
- at least two shipped AAA titles;
- very good command of English;
- passion for games and knowledge of the gaming industry from the player’s perspective;
- ability to express ideas verbally and through quick sketches;
- excellent teamwork skills;
- an eye for real-world and game references;
- familiarity with 2D or 3D graphics suites (Adobe Photoshop, 3ds Max/Blender).
Prop Artist at id Software
This is a full-time, on-site position in our development studio located just outside of Dallas, TX.
id Software is seeking a Prop Artist to join our team in making AAA games. This position assumes a prominent position on the team, helping to create and set a visual bar for industry-leading props, environments, vehicles, and weapons.
Qualifications:
- At least one first-person AAA title shipped as a Senior Artist or equivalent experience
- Hard skills – Fluent in 3D modeling packages (ex: Modo, Max, Maya, ZBrush, etc.) Fluent in texture creation packages (ex: Substance 3D Painter/Designer or comparable software). Expert knowledge of Hard surface and organic modeling techniques
- Experience – 4 years of experience in asset and texture creation using AAA game engine(s) and or 1 shipped AAA project.
- Soft skills – Values and practices professionalism.
- Team skills – Value the game direction and make decisions based on what is best for the project.
Concept Artist at FromSoftware
Your responsibilities:
Follow the core game concept in order to create 2D images for environments, objects, and characters; create various designs for in-game imagery.
Qualifications:
- Experience as a Concept Artist (able to draw environments/scenery, and design the game world setting based on an understanding of the core concept)
- Either a graduation certificate from university (graduate school) or 10 years of work experience relating to art or graphic design. (Any period of time studying art or graphic design at school may be included under work experience.)
More jobs can be found on the 80 Level job board.