Lead Hard-Surface Artist
hace 17 días
Middlesbrough
Description Were looking for a Lead Hard-surface Artist to join our award winning team in Middlesbrough (UK) home to the beautiful North Yorkshire coastline and countryside. Step into a world where your creativity shapes an iconic game. As a Lead Hard-surface Artist at Double Eleven youll be specialising in creating a diverse range of assets using all of the latest art production techniques help schedule the creation of the assets as well as leading fellow artists If youre looking for a role that blends artistic freedom technical innovation and leadership on a high-profile project this is it. Recently we collaborated with Rockstar Games to bring Red Dead Redemption to the Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 and PC partnered with Obsidian Entertainment on Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition for Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 and 5 and weve enabled millions to conquer Minecraft Dungeons! In this role you will be helping our team to create new adventures for Vault Dwellers around the world. Double Eleven is a place where our people come first. Our 400-person team proudly represents over 30 nationalities. We strive to avoid crunch we offer flexible working hours to allow you to truly enjoy work/life balance whilst making great games and any overtime is always planned optional and paid. We can support UK relocation and have both a dedicated People and Operation teams on standby to assist you. Interested We kindly ask all applicants to submit a portfolio to support their application. Were afraid applications without an accompanying portfolio will not be considered and on this occasion were unable to sponsor a visa for this role. Would you enjoy • Helping to create beautiful games, • Being part of an amazing team working on multiple AAA titles, • Being trusted to work independently and proactively to the highest standards, • Working with experienced teams in the industry What youll be doing • Work directly with Art Director and Production in coordinating art resources schedules and priorities based on project needs, • Provide direction to asset team artists for aesthetic and technical considerations, • Will need to fully understand and work around existing art pipelines, • Be hands on with the art team producing benchmark assets to style and brief of project, • Required to help lead the production and creation of art assets for the projects, • Able to communicate and deliver assets cooperatively and independently within a 3rd Party production environment, • Has expertise with PBR lighting rendering and material authoring, • Collaborate with Production to prioritize work identify issues in JIRA and escalate them to production ensuring tasks have sufficient information, • Reviewing work to meet the technical requirements and following best practices for the highest quality, • Proactive in finding answers and able to clearly communicate issues and direction to the team, • Capable of owning development of and delivering content while leading by example, • Ensure the team maintains high-quality artistic results and milestone delivery while encouraging effective communication and professionalism, • Receives and provides critique in a professional manner, • Able to manage and mentor career development of 3D Artists at various skill levels, • Leading a team of talented artists What were looking for • Has proven game cycle experience as a Senior or Lead Artist, • Shipped at least one title as a Senior or Lead Artist, • Experience in working with 3rd Party project, • Advanced understanding of 3D packages Photoshop Substance Designer/Painter Zbrush and Marmoset Toolbag, • Excellent knowledge with unwrapping modifying and creating UVs, • Passion for highly detailed 3D assets and texturing for game ready assets, • Demonstrates excellent foundational skills including composition design structure silhouette and colour theory, • Excellent understanding of the hard-surface art pipeline dependencies and overall scope of the project, • Demonstrates an ability to work with detailed concept art or reference art materials, • Excellent leadership and mentoring abilities as well as interpersonal skills, • Organised and practices good time management skills, • Finds creative solutions for technically challenging tasks, • Experienced in managing direct reports, • Experienced working in an Agile workflow Qualifications • All relevant qualifications considered Working life at Double Eleven • Start your day any time between 8:00am and 10:00am, • 35 working hours per week with a 1 hour lunch break (with the opportunity to flex down to 30 minutes or up to 2 hours), • Opportunity to apply for hybrid working (up to 2 days working from home per week), • 28 days annual leave (20 days annual leave 8 days bank holiday), • 1 day leave for your birthday and 1 day leave if youre moving house, • Up to 10 days discretionary annual leave during our end of year break, • Potential for annual performance bonus, • 5 additional days annual leave for 5 years service and a further 5 days annual leave for your 10 years service milestone, • A brand new state-of-the-art studio facilities that includes a market hall serving nutritious subsidised meals round-the-clock gym access an auditorium and more, • Free breakfast options juice hot drinks and fruit, • Employee referral bonus (up to 2000!), • Electric Car Scheme, • Cycle to Work scheme, • Free game codes game swag and merchandise, • Family-friendly leave available, • Christmas Saving Scheme, • Free parking, • Vitality Private Healthcare discounts and rewards for you your spouse and children (upon the successful completion of your 6 month probationary period), • Access to mental health and wellbeing support via Plumm (includes 4 free video therapy sessions per month for both the employee and up to 3 family members aged 18) unlimited text therapy courses meditations, • A personalised development plan with dedicated support tailored to your growth and goals, • Access to an accredited Academy providing professional qualifications (and access to 500 UK discounts and offers via TOTUM when registered as a student), • A dedicated Workplace Experience team responsible for work environments workplace and quality of employee life services to help foster collaboration creativity and innovation, • Free activities via our Bus Tours programme (where on occasion partners and children are welcome to join you), • Many team events to celebrate team and game milestones, • Sponsored team activities including football basketball book club movie club and more, • Opportunity to contribute to our internal Employee Diversity and Equality Network Ways to reach us If you have a general query or if you need support with your application and/or an alternative way to apply please do not hesitate to contact our Talent team at Key Skills 3ds Max,Computer Graphics,Perforce,Zbrush,Unreal Engine,Maya,Painting,Teaching,Adobe Photoshop,Digital Art,Music Therapy,Unity Employment Type : Full-Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1