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Principal Character Artist - Studio Elevation (Remote within the UK)

Elevation is re-establishing the boundaries of VR. We’re looking for an exceptionally talented Principal Character Artist to help us explore, create, and deliver world-leading innovation in software and VR hardware. As one of the core members of the Elevation team, you will be pathfinding a remote first studio crafting a new generation of VR development and bringing quality VR games to fruition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creating realistic, awe-inspiring characters that will be cutting-edge of VR space.
• Balance, tinker and playtest your work to optimize the overall game experience.
• Communicate across disciplines, from code and character art to animation to delivering assets that fulfil gameplay requirements.
• To help mentor and support the junior, mid-level artists in the team.
• Help communicate and align across disciplines, on vision and implementation of Characters.

Requirements

Essential capabilities:

• Performance and accountability – a commitment and focus to producing work of the highest standard to time and budget.
• Communication and relationships – ability to work collaboratively with the wider team at elevation, ability to develop visual ideas and to react positively to constructive feedback and able to critique other people's work constructively.
• A strong set of core skills - including composition, a great attention to detail and the ability to employ a clear creative process from reference, concept and development to the final style, finishes and execution.
• Demonstrate versatility, showing an aptitude to tackle a wide range of subject matters from stylized too realistic.
• To employ a clear creative process from reference, concept and development to the final style, finishes and execution.

Desired experience:

• A degree or equivalent qualification and at least 4 years experience in real-time game development.
• Experience of working within a team.
• An aptitude for new software, tools and technology, including a good knowledge of Maya and Unreal engine, as well as Zbrush and Substance.
• An aptitude to apply yourself to new technologies.
• Demonstrable 3D skills showing a strong understanding of technical console limitations and capabilities, and PBR pipeline.

Benefits

Who are we?

nDreams Studio Elevation is bringing the evolution of VR development to core gamers.

We are a remote-first studio seeded by the creative talent that brought you the innovative, genre-defining, award-winning Synapse, as well as Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, Fracked and Phantom: Covert Ops.

We are looking for exceptional talent to help pave the way forward with fresh innovation for the next generation of VR hardware and software.

Why nDreams Elevation?

This is the opportunity to build upon an already proven, world-class foundation of VR expertise, to further shape and mould a new way of working, that continues to deliver and innovate for the next generation of core VR games.

We are a remote-first studio, with all the perks that come with it. Work from anywhere to help us push the boundaries of VR, with cutting-edge technology and the support of our established VR expertise from the wider nDreams group.

Rapidly growing to support a variety of genres, nDreams is one of the world’s leading developers/publishers focused on VR games, creating multiple studios dedicated to making the best games out there.