Job Roles

LEVEL / ENVIRONMENT DESIGNER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Plan and model simplified geometry environmental layouts, place game objects, and script level progression
Perform extensive level play-testing, reviews, and iteration
Collaborate with artists, programmers, animators and other game designers to craft the vision of your levels and the game
Act as producer for levels you design, as well as other parts of the game, facilitating communication across disciplines, clearing dependencies, and ensuring deadlines are met
Design and champion gameplay systems, conventions, and scenarios
Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed

REQUIREMENTS & SKILLS:

Eye for art composition, architectural concepts, and an ability to create evocative shapes
Good working knowledge of Maya, 3DS Max, or similar 3D package
Understanding of simple scripting/programming concepts using a language such as C#, Lua, Javascript, or Python
Proficient and effective communication skills
Welcomes criticism and collaborates well as part of a diverse team, innovating without losing sight of the gameplay vision
Desire to be a part of a team
Preferred: 3+ years designing and scripting single-player levels for console games

3D ASSET ARTIST

Key Responsibilities

Create industry leading assets that creatively and technically raise the project’s visual bar.
Be comfortable communicating across teams and departments.
Self-regulate your workload while completing ad-hoc requests & investigating any issues that arise.
Be proactive and pre-empt dependency issues across teams before they happen.
Fully understand the project tool chain / game engine and confidently report issues & improvements.
Continue to develop the skills of yourself and those around you to maintain a world class quality.
Experience in dealing with outsource companies, with an understanding of the pipeline and the material required to support it.

Technical Requirements

Hard surface generalist – the ability to handle vehicles, weapons, and complex props.
Experience in creating and using assets in level creation tools such as Unreal Engine 4 or similar.
At least 1 published games title on current gen platforms.
Understanding of baking textures, processing maps and physically based shading.
3DS Max and Photoshop at expert level.
Experience of the full asset pipeline including optimising and profiling.
Z-brush experience.
Familiarity with procedural texture packages like Substance Designer.

Skill Requirements

Strong communication skills.
Able to work as part of a team.
Comfortable working in an environment of honest feedback & iterative design.
Functional design and implementation of concept to final asset, and the ability to expand creatively on the given style.
A deep understanding of mechanical engineering for complex rigged content a plus.
Experience leading a small team or mentoring other artist is a plus.