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Experienced Technical Artist - Onsite

Are you an experienced Technical Artist looking for a new opportunity where you can make a real impact?

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Artist to join our passionate Rebellion North team to work on a mixture of new unannounced Rebellion games & with trusted industry partners on genre-defining games!

This role is a standalone Technical Artist role in our north team, whilst you will have the support and guidance of our oxford team; being able to self-motivate and work autonomously is essential. You will provide hands-on support to artists and programmers regarding asset performance and validation. As part of the Technical Art team, you will play a key role in creating technical art features to support the art asset pipeline.

The Rebellion Technical Art team is responsible for creating solutions to support the art asset pipeline through creating technical art features.

Responsibilities

• Work Autonomously to develop 3D art pipeline tools and extensions with an eye toward usability and efficiency
• Provide hands-on support to artists and programmers in regard to asset performance and validation
• Work with Artists and Programmers to create 3D art and bring it to life into the engine
• Support Artists and Programmers in the use of the 3D art pipeline and user-facing engine tools
• Review creative process and identify opportunities for tool improvements
• Solve with support challenging technical issues in the 3D asset pipeline
• Collaborate with Programmers and Testers to diagnose and resolve in-game problems

Requirements

• Professional experience using C++ and Python, Max script, and Mel script

• Professional experience using Houdini

• Professional experience using 3d software such as 3D Studio Max, Maya, and Blender

• Professional experience using 3D sculpting packages such as Zbrush or Mudbox

• Professional experience using modeling processes hi-res sculpting, baking textures, and material/shader setup in realtime render engine

• Professional experience using PRB material pipeline/substance

• Able to develop resolutions to problems

• Unreal experience would be preferable, but not essential

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

About Us

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries make Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can to be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neuro-diversity, and beyond because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all of our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers