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3D Environment & Prop Artist - Realistic Style | Video Games

Title: 3D Environment & Prop Artist

Level:: Middle-Senior

Type: Remote, Home-Working

We are extensively growing our Global Art Team

As a 3D Artist at 1518, you will have the opportunity to work on high quality assets in one of our exciting projects. Our 3D Artists mix keen technical skills with creative problem solving to create models and textures for our upcoming games.

1518 studios are now on the hunt for several talented and professional 3D Artists to join our global Art Team. You'll be a highly qualified and experienced 3D Artist with the skills to create hard-surface objects, work with the team on Props and Environment assets.

This position entails a great deal of responsibility and opportunity to drive further the development of your artistic, technical, and creative expertise and will accept applications from 3D Artists that can work on a realistic style.

We are ideally looking for mid-snr 3D Artists that has at least around 5+ years of commercial experience for games, but equally if you’re a super talented, self-taught, or even come from a different creative field, we would love to hear from you and review your portfolio.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Have skills in hard-surface modelling (preferably knowledge of 3Ds Max).
• Can do accurate shading using weighted normals.
• A keen eye for spinning narrative and life into an environment.
• Understanding of real-time engines (Unreal Engine 4, Unity) and PBR pipeline.
• Can quickly adapt to new client software and plugins (according to guides). Able to switch quickly and fluidly to new requirements and processes when required.
• Able to create top shelf quality game assets for our current and upcoming stylized projects from start to implementation in Unity. Skilled at creating 3D models that are cleanly modelled, organised workflow & files. Consistently delivering well presented and defined materials from the initial block out through to final model & maps.
• Excellent design thinking skills, able to solve creative problems when adapting 2D concept, balancing form and function, always being aware of the whole pipeline and the requirements.
• Exceptional technical skills, solid knowledge of 3D software (Max, Maya, Blender, Zbrush, Substance and Marmoset).
• Solid skills while using Substance Painter and Photoshop texturin, targeting physically based rendering.
• Solid understanding of the art fundamentals. A strong grasp of proportion, scale, perspective, lighting, colour and volume is key.
• Familiarity with the entire game asset creation pipeline: high-poly sculpting, retopology, UV mapping, texture baking, texture painting, setting up and exporting to game.
• The ability to provide multiple creative options, then iterate upon them as projects progress.
• Good understanding of creative briefs, able to consider elements such as context, timescales and creative constraints when solving tasks.
• Excellent time management skills, able to meet deadlines and multitask.
• Excellent collaborative attitude. A receptive individual who's open to take feedback and working together with team-mates and clients.
• An eye-catching portfolio is a must, we want to see that passion for Hard-Surface Modelling.

Nice to have

• Experience in game dev or outsource.
• Love of computer games, interest in the metaverses.
• An understanding and interest in real world mechanics would also be a benefit.
• Intermediate-Advanced English level and above.

Benefits

• 8-hour working day.
• Competitive financial reward.
• A community of people who share a love for games and are always ready to share knowledge.
• Remote working form home.
• Dynamic and entrepreneurial global multicultural casual, fun environment.
• You get to work with the latest technologies.
• You will be working for one of the worlds leading providers of specialist services to the games industry.

Who we are

PTW is a boutique games services company that provides custom solutions worldwide. We believe in accelerating innovation across the globe. We started more than 25 years ago and since then, have grown exponentially year-on-year to who we are today. Our history is in gaming, and we are still gamers at heart. In our time within the games industry, we have worked on over 1,500 titles across all genres and all platforms.

We have grown rapidly over the past few years and now have 16 sites spanning the globe. The PTW umbrella of companies includes SIDE, 1518, OR Esports, and Entalize. SIDE works at the cutting edge of interactive media as a provider of audio services for the global entertainment market. 1518 is know industry wide for world-class art and is also our in-house game and product development studio.

Basically, anywhere in the world, any platform, any genre, we can help come up with a custom solution to make games run better, get to market faster, and enhance the lives of more players.

In summary, we connect and bring fun to the world.

Welcome to PTW, Family of Brands
https://www.ptw.com/
https://sideglobal.com/
https://1518studios.com/