Environment Artist

Job Description

As an Environment Artist, you will be responsible for creating assets and environments that bring visually stunning worlds to life. You will capture the artistic style of the project while ensuring technical, design, and narrative requirements are met efficiently.

The rundown:

• 6 month fixed term contract
• Full time (37.5 hours per week)
• Fully remote within the UK
• Salary range: £30,000 -£42,000

Requirements

Key responsibilities:

• Design and create exceptional in-game environments and assets, pushing the boundaries of VR by interpreting concepts in an innovative and creative way.
• Ensure performance and accountability by delivering high-quality work on time, while contributing ideas and visuals to the research and development process.
• Demonstrate versatility by tackling a wide range of styles, from stylized to realistic.
• Compose and craft engaging scenes, create assets, and set dress environments to build believable worlds that captivate and evoke emotion in players.
• Collaborate effectively with the team at Elevation, developing visual ideas and responding positively to constructive feedback, while also critiquing the work of others constructively.

Skills and Experience:

• A degree or equivalent qualification, or at least two years of experience in a related industry.
• Proficiency with industry-standard tools, including Maya/Blender, Zbrush, Substance Suite, Photoshop, and Unreal Engine.
• Experience working within a collaborative team environment.
• Strong 3D skills with an understanding of VR-specific technical constraints and capabilities.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Zbrush would be an advantage.

Benefits

We are nDreams – we develop and publish the world’s most immersive VR games. You may know us as the team behind Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, Synapse, Phantom: Covert Ops, Fracked, and the recently released FRENZIES. With humble beginnings as an independent studio, we combine amazing projects and considerable scale with a personal, caring touch.

We believe the best workplaces and games are created by diverse, happy and safe teams. We're committed to building a culture centred on respect, wellbeing and balance. It's crucial we make our games and industry more accessible to underrepresented communities. We strive to live this through the people we hire, the experiences we create and the causes we support.

We want everyone to have the opportunity to bring their best, authentic self to work. Please let us know if you require reasonable adjustments during the interview process by emailing interviewing@ndreams.com or speaking to your nDreams recruiter. For more information about reasonable adjustments, check out this guidance from Scope.