OPM’s client are looking to add to its family of staff. They are looking for an exceptionally talented 3D Artist who is ready for the challenge of producing a AAA title on the next generation platforms. The candidate will work well with all disciplines in the studio to achieve a cohesive vision of the overarching Game Design.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and create complex rigged assets from blockout to final quality, serving the needs of gameplay and animation.
• Collaborate with the art direction and concept team to create industry leading content and visually striking content.
• Work with multiple departments to create and maintain complex asset pipelines.
• Self-regulation of personal workload while completing ad-hoc requests & investigating any issues that arise.
• Being proactive and pre-empting dependency issues before they happen.
• Full understanding of the project tool chain / game engine, and confidently reporting issues & improvements.
• Achieving a world class bar of technical quality for your own work and the work of those around you.
• Developing and maintaining robust and high-quality workflows with their outsourcing partners.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Exceptional hard surface modelling ability.
• Experience in creating and using assets in level creation tools such as Unreal Engine 4 or similar.
• At least 1 published AAA game title on current gen platforms.
• Understanding of baking textures, processing maps and physically based shading.
• Expert knowledge on any leading 3D package (3ds Max preferred) and Substance Painter.
• Comfortable with Zbrush (or similar software) and familiarity with procedural texturing packages like Substance Designer.
• Experience of the full asset pipeline including optimising and profiling.
• A deep understanding of mechanical engineering and design is a plus

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

• Strong communication skills.
• A positive, collaborative and professional working attitude
• Capable of independent decision making and comfortable taking on responsibility for assets and dependencies.
• Keen eye for detail, proportion, layout and composition.
• Comfortable working alongside a concept team, including the ability to expand on a given style without direct 1 to 1 concept support;
• Comfortable working in a quality driven environment with detailed specification and rigorous feedback loops.
• Experience leading a small team or mentoring other artists is a plus.

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