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Lead Technical Artist - Hybrid/Flexible

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 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. So, if 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 Lead Technical Artist to join our growing Art Team, working on a variety of current and upcoming unannounced titles.

You will be directing and delivering creative solutions to support the wider art team. Working with the art, code, and wider tech teams you’ll be planning and constructing technical art features to be used in our wide range of projects across our studios.

You will be working on exciting AAA projects within an experienced team with a proven record of delivering quality products. This is a hands-on role that has a real tangible impact on our games and how we develop them.

Responsibilities

• Professional experience in a comparable role having delivered at least one title through a full development cycle
• Collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders across the business to balance the creative vision of our projects with production realities
• Develop high-quality 3D art pipeline tools and extensions with a focus on usability and efficiency
• Provide hands-on support for Artist and Programmers regarding asset performance and validation
• Review creative processes and identify opportunities for tool improvements
• Solve challenging technical issues in the 3D asset pipeline
• Work with PBR pipeline and advance game engine tools
• Be an active mentor and role model for the art team

Requirements

• Strong experience using C++, Python, and Houdini
• Strong experience with 3D Studio Max or Maya
• Strong experience using with Zbrush or Mudbox
• Experience with modelling processes, hi-res sculpting, baking textures and material shaders setup in realtime render engine
• Experience with Photoshop or other 2D packages
• Ability to work on unusually complex problems and provide solutions which are highly creative

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, 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 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, neurodiversity 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 our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers