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Senior Environment Artist (Narrative Adventure)

A visionary game development studio founded in 2012, Firesprite builds innovative showcase titles for PlayStation platforms as part of the PlayStation Studios family.

Would you enjoy the freedom to create AAA games working from anywhere in the UK, including our Liverpool studio?

We're looking for a Senior Environment Artist on dark, narrative driven blockbuster title with genre defining goals. This highly ambitious project takes atmosphere, narrative and player agency firmly into ground-breaking territory on next-generation Unreal 5 & hardware technologies.

You will be an experienced Environment Artist with a proven track record of creating and maintaining game environments. Working from concept art you will bring the Art Director’s vision to life and maintain a consistent art style. You will need to work closely with the rest of the team, including Lead Artists, Level Designers, and Animators, to create gameplay spaces that play well and look visually stunning. You will need to be able to create natural and organic environments, as well as interior spaces.

Key Responsibilities:

• Environmental storytelling through set dressing and population
• Creating high quality assets, including models, UVs and textures
• Working independently on asset sets, and planning of modular kits

• Ensuring optimal performance and technical quality of assets
• Ensuring dynamic functionality of art assets, ie physics, destruction and weather
• Optimizing assets to fit specific technical requirements
• Possible mentoring of more junior artists

Requirements

• Strong AAA Game experience
• A portfolio showing scene composition and modular workflow
• A portfolio showing clean, optimal, models for game
• A portfolio showing models taken from concept to completion

• Experience using industry standard DCC software (ie Maya/Max etc)
• Experience of high to low poly baking workflows
• Strong core art skills, including understanding of composition, form, silhouette, colour and light theory
• Experience with PBR material creation
• Understanding of procedural workflows for textures sets

• Understanding of scanning workflows for assets and textures
• General awareness of geographical processes, architecture, historical and cultural context
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A love and understanding of games and game art creation

Additional or Desired Skills:

• Substance Painter/Designer knowledge
• Knowledge of Unreal engine
• High poly sculpting in Zbrush or equivalent package

Benefits

• Private Healthcare Plan
• Bonus Scheme
• Enhanced Holiday Allowance
• Pension Plans
• Work From Home
• Training & Development
• Employee Assistance Programme - Counselling

Firesprite is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We welcome and encourage applications from all suitable applicants regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.