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Junior Technical Artist - Hybrid/Flexible

Are you a 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 operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool and Wakefield. Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them. As long as you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support remote and/or Hybrid working options.

We are on the lookout for a Junior Technical Artist to join our team working across an exciting wide variety of Rebellion projects to support the creative direction of the projects whilst maintaining technical realities.

Your role as a Junior Technical Artist will be to research and create solutions to support the art asset pipeline, participate in creating technical art features and implement these within our proprietary engine. You’ll work with artists and programmers to create 3D art and bring it to life in the engine, review creative processes and identify opportunities for improvements to ensure our games are progressive and in line with the direction of industry standards.

You will focus on developing the workflows to make quality, efficient art and guiding the art team during the creation and optimisation of objects within our AAA games. This is a real opportunity to influence the technical art of Rebellion’s future projects.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve existing art workflows and practices.
• Identify inefficiencies in the art creation workflows and propose solutions.
• Assist artists in learning new and best practices in content creation and optimisation
• Maintain and improve best practice documentation and training materials.
• Assist with performance profiling, memory, and optimisation.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of art creation workflows.
• Good understanding of art fundamentals, such as composition.
• Good experience within Maya, Blender or 3DS Max.
• Basic understanding of runtime performance costs and how to optimise content.

• Exposure to HLSL and shader creation where relevant to art creation would be a bonus
• Exposure to photogrammetry or procedural content workflows would be a bonus
• Exposure to Adobe Substance packages would be a bonus

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 and 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, makes 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