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Senior Material Artist

1 year ago

As our new Senior Materials Artist, you will work closely with the Lead Materials Artist to create materials, libraries, and tools using Substance Designer. You will establish and maintain the highest level of quality and ensure that this is communicated to all teams.
With a specialization in Substance Designer, you should have a solid understanding of creating end-to-end photorealistic physics-based materials. Along with the ability to use Substance Designer to create realistic materials procedurally and non-destructively with attention to detail and subtle nuances.
You will be joining a highly experienced team, creating cutting-edge materials for a hugely exciting, multi-world gaming experience!

Responsibilities

You will have excellent proficiency in Substance Designer creating clean, clear editable materials.
The ability to create materials that accurately represent any given real-world surface or detail.
Create Substance Designer procedural content allowing artists full control to create variations.
Create and maintain custom effects such as generators and filters.
Match established art styles while developing ways to improve the visual direction.
Self-sufficient problem-solver with ability to identify and mitigate risk.
Strong communication, offering ideas and suggestions.
Continuously Innovative, improving workflows and processes.
Ability to document concisely and clearly.
Ability to appreciate, respond to and provide constructive critique.
Help to own material library and maintain material pipelines.

Essential Requirements

Enjoy working collaboratively as part of a cross disciplinary team.
3+ years of relevant industry experience (4+ Substance Designer experience)
Portfolio demonstrating a range of original procedural, photorealistic material/texture creation.
A demonstrated mastery of Substance Designer.
Experience working inside Substance Painter.
Production experience with 3D authoring software (Blender, Maya, 3Dsmax, Zbrush).
Familiarity with engines such as Unreal4/5, Unity, other mainstream 3D engines.
Solid understanding of Physically Based Shading and rendering.

Desirable experience

Experience with Real-time rendering.
Experience of shader creation.
Experience with photogrammetry and scanning data in your material workflow is a plus.

Our Global Benefits & Perks

Unlimited coaching & therapy — with Oliva, to support your mental health
£500 annual Learning Budget — to spend on Learnerbly
Stock Options — everyone owns a piece of our success
Compassionate Leave — regardless of who it is, whether you’ve miscarried, or a lost a pet, you don’t need to tell us why
Birthday Present — £150 voucher or a charity donation
Birthday Day off — to celebrate your birthday away from work each year
Caregiver Leave — up to 5 days each year to support your loved ones
New baby gift — £250 toward a meal delivery or cleaning service
Remote Working Budget – for remote workers to get out of the house
Pension scheme — to finance those golden years
Socials —office & remote events, play sessions and company-wide parties
And even more benefits based on your location!

If you’re based in the UK

29 Annual Leave + 3 bank holidays - we’re flexible with most bank holidays so you can use the time to celebrate what’s important to you
Long Service Days - 2 extra days added on your 2nd & 4th anniversaries with us.
Private Medical Insurance - full cover with AXA
Healthcare Cash Plan - Level 3 cover with Medicash
Enhanced Family Leave - Primary caregivers; 13 weeks full pay, 13 weeks half pay, Secondary caregivers; 2 weeks full pay
Cycle2Work Scheme - lease a bike through us and save on tax too!
Electric Car Charging - electric car charging at our Port office in Edinburgh, Scotland.

About us

Build A Rocket Boy is developing EVERYWHERE; an experience with a breadth of unimaginable gameplay adventure.

We are a mix of industry leading veterans whose credits include some of the best selling and most loved games of all time. We’re a creative digital entertainment studio with an open and progressive methodology, dedicated to delivering games of the highest calibre possible.

If you want to feel comfortable, inspired, and appreciated in your work pursuits then come join us. We have offices in Edinburgh, Budapest and consider WFH candidates.

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