Senior Material Artist – AAA Games Studio – London, UK

Project: AAA Games studio

OPM’s client is looking for an experienced Senior?Material Artist to?assist?in helping?us build?stunning and inspiring environments for an upcoming title. Working within our multi-discipline art team, you will be creating high-quality tiling and procedural materials for floors, walls, and assets for a photorealistic video game environment.

The successful candidate will be in line with the art direction and technical requirements of a AAA real-time games project and be used in tandem with the needs of the wider art team.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong?skills?in?art software packages such as Maya,?ZBrush,?Substance Designer/Painter?and?Photoshop.
• Good?understanding of art fundamentals and design (including understanding of composition and colour)?
• Good communication skills and ability to receive and act upon feedback
• Solve problems that arise during production with creative solutions
• Hardworking and have a strong passion to learn and improve as an artist?
• Be able to manage and mentor a small team

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with the Art Leads and fellow artists to create the necessary PBR materials to craft a photorealistic AAA environment, creating both tiling materials for surfaces as well as materials for asset creation and visual consistency.
• These materials will be used on real-time scenes in a game’s engine as well as in numerous asset creation pipelines.
• Collaborate with Art Leads and other departments such as?Art Direction, Concept?Art, and?Tech Art to ensure a consistent art style is maintained across the game’s materials while maintaining game play and performance requirements.
• Build and maintain a high quality PBR material library, consistency, and technical standard across the project.
• Create Benchmark Materials as well as be able to create/improve Material Pipelines and Workflows in Substance Designer and Painter while also documenting it.
• Ability to mentor other production artists and junior material artists.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 417!