One Player Mission’s client has become one of the highest selling games of all time with over 70 million copies sold! They are now incredibly excited to be recruiting for their new Unannounced Project.

They are looking for a Environment Artist who will play a significant role in the art team’s efforts to produce detailed, modular and high-quality environment models.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Established experience in the games industry (preferably AAA)
• A portfolio with examples of high-quality environment & level artworks.
• Excellent communication skills to communicate internally in teams, self-motivated, directed with strong time management skills that enable you to work well with deadlines.
• Expertise in UE4UE5

RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Build visual stunning environments and AAA quality art assets
• Environmental storytelling through set dressing
• Populate and set dress our game world using a variety of 3D assets.
• Sculpt and model high and low polygon assets and texture them through the PBR pipeline, helping to set the bar for other artists at the studio.
• Work closely with a team of artists and level designers to assemble and detail game environments.
• Work with our team of artists, designers, and writers to create high quality modular environments and environmental assets.
• Ensure assets created follow the given art direction, and are within the agreed production deadlines and conform to the required technical specifications
• Receive, give, and apply feedback effectively while maintaining a positive attitude.
• Use a positive style of communication working with the Production team and Art Leads, keeping them informed of any dependencies, blockers and cross-department challenges.

BENEFITS:

• 25 paid + 4 extra paid working days off a year
• An allowance to cover the Dutch mandatory health insurance
• Relocation package
• Pension scheme
• A commuter allowance
• Full assistance with visas and the 30% ruling applications when the candidate is eligible

And many more!

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call me directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214428!

Role posted by

Mitchell Gibson

One Player Mission’s client has become one of the highest selling games of all time with over 70 million copies sold! They are now incredibly excited to be recruiting for their new Unannounced Project.

They are looking for a Hard Surface Artist who will play a significant role in the art team’s efforts to produce detailed, modular and high-quality surfaces.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Some experience creating real time hard surface assets, and shipped at least one AAA title
• Proven work with hardsurface assets in different styles
• Strong knowledge of one 3D DCC software, Substance Painter
• Working knowledge of Fusion 360, Zbrush, Maya and Unreal Engine 4/5
• Solid understanding of the artistic and technical fundamentals of the game art production pipeline (High Poly, Low Poly, UV, Bake, Texturing, Optimization)
• A strong understanding of colour theory, form, silhouette and mechanical design
• Effective communication and organizational skills? A passion for playing and making games with an affinity for shooter games is a plus
• Ability to concept original weapons/gameplay assets is a plus

RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Author realtime hardsurface assets with an emphasis on first person weapons with minimal supervision.
• Provide feedback to other team members and external vendors.
• Collaborate with the team lead and the broader team to solve technical and aesthetic challenges

BENEFITS:

• 25 paid + 4 extra paid working days off a year
• An allowance to cover the Dutch mandatory health insurance
• Relocation package
• Pension scheme
• A commuter allowance
• Full assistance with visas and the 30% ruling applications when the candidate is eligible

And many more!

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call me directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214428!

Role posted by

Mitchell Gibson

One Player missions client are looking for an Art Director. The client are a visionary game development studio founded in 2012, They build innovative showcase titles for PlayStation platforms as part of the PlayStation Studios family. Would you enjoy the freedom to create AAA PlayStation games working from anywhere in the UK, including our Liverpool studio?

Responsibilities:

• To set and maintain an exciting and engaging artistic vision for the game.
• Clearly communicate your vision to the project stakeholders and Art team through artwork and presentations.
• Expand, lead, develop and mentor a world-class art team.
• Report to the Creative Director and collaborate with the Game Director, Tech Director, and other key project stakeholders.
• Create and maintain style guides for the project.
• Review and critique artwork and communicate this back to art leads or artist for a given piece of work.
• Maintain and develop the artistic vision for the game throughout development and into launch and beyond.

Requirement’s:

• Previous experience as an Art Director on a AAA title, from initial concept to final product.
• An eagerness to learn new working practices and software, but can bring their own experience of best working practices to the team and studio.
• Approachable, with a proactive attitude towards cross discipline communication.
• A thorough understanding of the latest art workflows.
• Excellent and demonstrable art skills with a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of art.
• Energetic and positive attitude with strong leadership skills.

Additional Desirable Skills:

• The ability to create an artistic vision from scratch across multiple styles and genres.
• ???????Experience with Unreal Engine.
• Experience with Console development.
• Familiarity with DevOps processes.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Private Health Care plan
• Extended holiday allowance
• Relocation assistance
• Performance related bonus

And lots more….

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call me directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214428

Role posted by

Mitchell Gibson

OPMs client is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Technical Artist to join their passionate team

The successful candidate will design and build engaging experiences that are enjoyed by their players all over the world.

You will also be highly technical and possess the eye of an artist. Being forward looking you’ll take the lead developing and sourcing technical solutions and optimisations that are balanced to maximise the end visual quality and fidelity of our content.

REQUIREMENTS:

• An Artist-first mindset with solid engineering skills. Whilst you’re very technically inclined, you have developed an artistic eye.
• Expert knowledge of content creation software, especially Maya, Blender, Houdini, Zbrush, Substance, and Photoshop.
• Expertise programming in languages such as Python & C#
• Experience developing for mobile and an excellent understanding of the performance characteristics of mobile hardware, Unity, scalability, performance profiling techniques and optimization (CPU / GPU / Shaders / Models).
• Advanced knowledge of building, implementing and improving art tools in Unity.
• A superb understanding of the technical aspects of game art creation.
• The chops to lead the creation of high-quality game art efficiently.
• Proven expertise of working with art teams and leads to deliver the game to the artistic vision.
• Excellent multitasking, organisational, communication, and team collaboration skills.
• A proven career of hands-on experience as a Technical Artist and have shipped multiple titles on mobile or handheld.

BENEFICIAL:

• Proven experience in content creation risk management.
• ‘AAA’ knowledge in one field of technical art.
• Technical animation experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborating with artists and programmers to ensure assets can be efficiently integrated into our games.
• Maintaining and developing the efficiency of our workflow, content pipelines, and tools for the art team. Identifying and developing new systems and tools when beneficial.
• Evaluating, sourcing and developing the most efficient asset system or process that considers whether developing, co-developing or an off the shelf solution is best.
• Maintaining and sharing knowledge of cutting edge industry trends and technology in content tools, process, pipelines, and related hardware / software.
• Analysing and adjusting the framework for art asset creation that balances performance, efficiency and artistry, to achieve optimal run time visual quality and game performance.
• Analysing art asset performance efficiency and in game usage to ensure excellent game performance by collaborating with engineers, artists and designers.
• Managing and Mentoring the technical art team.
• Task management for the art team and autonomously finding solutions.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214415

Role posted by

Darren Matthews

One Player missions client are looking for a Senior UI Artist, You will play a big role in creating visually captivating and intuitive user interfaces for our game titles. The studio are a brand-new AAA studio in the heart of London, with aspirations to build one of the largest and most creatively ambitious development teams in the world.
 

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Art Director, Game Designers, Programmers and your Lead to design and create visually stunning and intuitive user interfaces that enhance the player experience and seamlessly integrate with the game world.
• Help to develop and maintain a consistent visual style and design language for UI elements, ensuring that they are inline with the overall art direction of the game.
• Create amazing UI elements that enhance immersion and storytelling, integrating UI seamlessly into the game world and narrative
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and design techniques to continuously improve the quality and innovation of our UI designs.
• Incorporate motion graphics and animations into the user interface to enhance interactivity and provide visual feedback to players. Create engaging transitions, animations, and dynamic elements that elevate the overall user experience.
• Collaborate with User Experience (UX) designers to ensure that UI designs are user-friendly and intuitive, providing a seamless gameplay experience.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in UI/UX design, with a strong emphasis on designing for video games.
• Exceptional graphic design skills, with a keen eye for typography, color theory, and composition.
• Proficiency in industry-standard design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) and Figma.
• Strong portfolio showcasing a range of UI designs, including examples of high quality UI elements and integration into game worlds.
• Solid understanding of game development pipelines and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience creating UI assets for various platforms (PC, console, mobile), with an understanding of technical limitations and considerations.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to receive and provide clear, constructive feedback to team members.
• Passion for gaming and a deep understanding of how UI/UX design contributes to player engagement and immersion.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries based on up-to-date data from external benchmarking providers & reviewed annually.
• 30 days annual leave, in addition to all UK Bank Holidays.
• Hybrid work-from-home policy.
• £425 yearly preventative healthcare allowance.
• Core studio hours 10:00-16:00 with 1 ‘wellness hour’ to be used per week.

And much more…
Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214428

Role posted by

Mitchell Gibson

One Player Missions client are seeking a Senior Technical artist to join their team working on a new unannounced project! , This is someone who will be working with Houdini and Unreal Engine and will help them create a wide range of procedural tools as they advance. You will work hands-on with the game world, seeing it grow in front of your hands and eyes. They believe in a creative workflow making sure that everyone contributes to the final look and feel of the world. It is a team effort! 
 

Responsibilities:

• You will work with a team that the artists thank in their prayers as you save them hours and hours of boredom by creating tools that automate tedious, repetitive tasks.
• You enjoy designing procedural pipelines and growing your team’s individuals.
• someone who likes solving complex, hard-to-define problems and working with talented artists and designers.
• You will work with areas like procedural world generation, tool creation (in Houdini and Unreal Engine), and generating content for the game.
• You will research and develop art pipelines to help bring your coworkers’ ideas to life!
• Bring your own ideas on how to use proceduralism to improve the game. 

Requirements: 

• You have shipped at least one AAA game as Senior or Lead Technical Artist.
• Experience working with procedural setups in Houdini.
• You have previous professional experience working with a game engine.
• Excellent communication skills as you will work closely with your team and other departments.
• Strong problem-solving and prototyping abilities. You will face tasks and requests that are not clearly defined and work together with other departments to determine what you can achieve and how best to achieve it.
• A true team player since a large part of our job is solving problems for others, and you need to be able to support artists/designers with their work.
• A bonus if you have experience in mentoring Technical artists.

Benefits:

• Competitive salaries aligned with industry and regional levels
• 30 days annual leave, in addition to all public holidays.
• Hybrid work-from-home policy.
• Bonus and profit sharing
• Pension
• Private Healthcare
• 5000 SEK yearly preventative healthcare allowance.
• Core studio hours 10:00-16:00 with 1 ‘wellness hour’ to be used per week.
• Breakfasts, fika and after works at the studio.
• VISA sponsorship and relocation assistance
• Happy for you to have side projects outside of work

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214415

Role posted by

Darren Matthews

One Player Missions client are seeking a Senior VFX artist to join their team working on a new unannounced project! , you will work hands-on with the game world, seeing it grow in front of your hands and eyes. They believe in a creative workflow making sure that everyone contributes to the final look and feel of the world. It is a team effort! 
 

Responsibilities:

• You will be part of the VFX team working together in creating and delivering high-end effects and any other place where VFX comes into play.
• You will have a great deal of ownership and influence over the VFX in the game
• You will collaborate and compromise with other departments to reach the best solution possible.
• You will work closely with the design, concept and programming departments to determine what we want to create and help realize great ideas to improve the game. 

Requirements: 

• Several years of experience with real-time VFX creation
• Being able to create a wide range of effects, including realistic ones
• Shipped at least one AAA-games
• Great communication skills
• Solid ability to break down tasks and plan your work
• Comfortable exploring different options and doing a lot of technical problem-solving
• Solid understanding of shaders and how to set up shader networks to support your VFX
• Comfortable creating textures that can easily be reused

Benefits:

• Wellbeing
• Flexible working
• Annual spending on gym memberships

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214415

Role posted by

Darren Matthews

One Player Missions client are looking for a Technical Artist who will be bridging the gap between artists and engineers, ensuring performance and technical compliance. .The company reflects the city’s diverse look and feel. Being mainly expats, and are  currently representing more than 20 different nationalities – and still growing and adding to the team.

Responsibilities:

• Act as point of contact between the art and programming teams
• Stay up to date on trends and methodologies in current and future graphics software and hardware to develop early planning of tools and processes
• Put in place graphic production pipelines
• Work closely with the Art Leads to deliver the art vision within the project requirements
• Drive optimization and debugging to fix issues raised.

Role posted by

Darren Matthews

One Player Mission’s client, is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Artist, who will be responsible for working alongside an enthusiastic team of developers helping to drive and deliver the next generation of games created at our clients studio.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within there highly talented and creative team on an exciting AAA mobile game.
REQUIREMENTS:

• Excellent technical skills to manage assets that fit memory, design, and frame rate limitations.
• Expert knowledge in at least one of following areas: Modelling, Shaders / Materials, Animation and Vfx
• Excellent at both technical and creative problem-solving.
• Experience implementing efficient Rigs for Characters / Vehicles.
• Character skinning and physics simulation setup.
• Great working knowledge and proficiency in Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop
• Experience at creating Custom Tools, Scripts and Shaders
• Our client makes AAA quality games that have to be intuitive and slick. You would need to be hungry to make them even better!

BENEFICIAL:

• Knowledge of software like 3DSMax, ZBrush, Houdini, Modo, Substance Designer / Painter.
• Experience in MEL, Python, C# scripting.
• Knowledge of Unity or Unreal.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assisting the Head of Game and Design Director with project direction, planning & scoping
• Interpret designs and specs into tasks and content and deliver these against milestones and deliverables
• Oversight and involvement with development. Championing pipeline and workflow efficiencies, risk management and escalation, scheduling, tracking and resourcing
• Adapting to change, whilst maintain a credible project plan
• Monitoring progress against the schedule & budget
• Guide the development of robust and sustainable systems, features and gameplay for a prolonged release strategy, including live production
• Ownership of the project Jira database, responsible for the tracking and maintenance of tasks/ tickets
• Guide, develop and motivate direct reports and wider team, to champion delivering exceptional work in a positive, constructive and enjoyable environment
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and partners
• Working with the Project QA Leads to ensure any testing requirements are covered
• Champion improvements to the Studio’s production practices.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214415

Role posted by

Darren Matthews

This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it is safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

Project: AAA Games

OPM’s client is seeking a Senior Environment Artist to join their passionate and talented team.

The successful candidate will build awe inspiring worlds that play and perform well with high-quality assets that are delivered on time and within the technical specifications required for the game to perform to the highest standards.

REQUIREMENTS:

• An up-to-date portfolio filled with examples of Environment work.
• In-depth understanding of shape, form and composition.
• Proven abilities in optimised 3D asset creation.
• Good experience of PBR workflows.
• Expertise with industry standard modelling tools such as 3D Studio Max and Maya.
• Familiarity working with Photoshop, Substance Painter.
• Strong communication skills.
• The capability to work well within a team.
• Experience with industry standard asset tracking software such as Jira.

RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Produce standalone and modular Environment assets varying in scale and complexity.
• Model assets using reference photographs and concept Art materials.
• Collaborate with the Lead Environment Artist to create high quality environments in keeping with the project's visual direction.
• Create work within performance specifications under strict deadlines.
• Review and implement your work using the game editor.
• Trouble shoot asset errors and action creative feedback.
• Work closely with other sub-disciplines such as Level Design, Lighting, VFX and Tech Art.
• Mentor junior level staff through knowledge sharing.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Knowledge of the impact of Environment Art on Level Design.
• Unreal Engine 4+ experience
• Familiarity with supporting software such as Zbrush and Substance Designer.
• Combination of hard surface and foliage asset modelling skills.
• Set dressing and beautification pass experience.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 417!

Role posted by

Mitchell Gibson

One Player Missions client is looking for a Senior Character Artist to join their Art Team. They are launching a novel online sci-fi shooter.

The successful candidate will utilise their expertise in art and design to craft iconic characters for a ground-breaking project. They should be ready to collaborate closely with various departments, ensuring the production and delivery of top-quality characters in line with the game’s style and technical specifications.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong knowledge of art and design principles.
• Proficient eye for detailing, making characters believable.
• Deep understanding of form, line, shape, colour, proportions, and composition.
• Passion for hard Sci-Fi.
• Ability to understand briefs and interpret information to design characters fitting design requirements and art style.
• Experience with PBR material workflows.
• Mastery of Substance Painter and Designer.
• Expertise in Maya, Zbrush.
• Capable of writing clear and comprehensible briefs.
• Established experience in AAA game development.
• Impressive portfolio to showcase.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with Art Direction and Concept Art for Hard Sci-Fi Character creation.
• Lead character design from initial concept to final asset.
• Assemble references, mood boards, and video references as needed.
• Craft briefs and offer feedback to external partners.
• Liaise with the Production team for schedule development and timely asset delivery.
• Coordinate with Tech Artists and Programming teams to define workflows, pipelines, and best practices.
• Establish benchmark standards and oversee quality maintenance.
• Ensure characters meet technical specifications, quality standards, and function as intended.

BENEFITS:

• The opportunity to work on a ground-breaking project surrounded by a talented team.
• A chance for personal and professional growth within an international company.
• Diverse and innovative work environment promoting creativity.
• Complimentary breakfast, lunches, drinks, and snacks (when in the studio).
• Flexible work hours in a family-friendly setting.
• Grants for travel and fitness.
• Extended family leave policies.
• Employer-contributed pension plan.
• Life Insurance.
• Private medical and dental coverage.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 428!

Role posted by

Mitchell Gibson