Senior Technical Environment Artist

22cans - Guildford, UK

22cans are seeking a Senior Technical Environment Artist who is eager to embrace a highly creative and explorative development environment and help them realise their vision. 

22cans is an independent games development studio with a passion for making award-winning, innovative and delightful games. As part of the art team you will work closely with the Art Director, Art Lead and Tech Lead to design and author the game environment / game world. This is your opportunity to mark your mark and reach huge audiences around the world.


Your role and responsibilities will include...
 

• Collaborating with Art Direction, Design and Code to help form and realise the studio’s vision for the title
• Creating environment and other art assets from scratch to develop the concept art, game environments, props, game objects and overall game world
• Organising and maintaining environment art content and giving feedback to the team
• Developing Environment assets and material production pipelines.
• Authoring of materials

For this role, you'll need...
 

• At least 3+ years of experience working in games, films, VFX as an Environment Artist or Technical Generalist
• Good 3D modelling, environment asset texturing skills and techniques. (props, environment assets)
• Substance designer and substance painter experience
• Professional experience and good knowledge of working with Maya and knowledge of its modelling tools
• In depth knowledge of shader graph and node based shader creation techniques and ability to author stylised materials
• Knowledge of in game lighting and post processing tools
• Good knowledge of general pipelines for world building, kit bashing and other related elements such as terrain generation, vegetation
• To be able to provide detailed input about the world creation process, from modelling, texturing to lighting
• Knowledge of procedural workflows
• Great general artistry, Maya and Photoshop competence

Bonus points if you have skills and experience with...
 

• Unity's HDRP
• HLSL and GLSL
• C#

Interested? Want to know more?

Get in touch with Liam.hollinshead@aswift.com or call +44(0) 1709 834 777 now!