Senior Environment Artist

South East, UK

Permanent

Excellent salary + benefits

This is a rare opportunity to work for one of the world's leading console developers on an unannounced AAA console project. If you're looking for a career defining title on your CV, this is the studio for you!

Essential Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 4 years in CG Games modelling and texturing environments using Maya, or equivalent 3D application, Photoshop, and a sculpting package either Z brush or Mudbox
• Example work demonstrating skills in organic modeling
• Experience working closely with a Lead Artist and Art Director in developing a unique and cohesive modeling and texturing style for environments
• The ability to prototype and problem solve
• Excellent eye for light, colour and detail in modeling high poly to bake down to low poly models
• A superb eye for form, colour and silhouette, plus the ability to add weight to your work by showing a good knowledge of how things are constructed or work both organically and architecturally
• A strong communicator, who is self-motivated, and is proactive, as well as a good team player, and able to mentor junior artists
• Skills in either traditional arts architecture or a design related equivalent

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Proven ability in painting stylized and detailed textures
• A good understanding of lighting
• Experience with working in Unreal
• Having shipped an AAA title before

Please send CVs and portfolios to George@datascope.co.uk

Unfortunately this position is only available to EU Citizens and is not available as a remote or freelance opportunity.

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Ideally you will be educated to a degree level in mathematics, economic, statistics or science.  The right candidate will have knowledge of statistical analysis, excellent Excel and SQL will be a plus.

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have a fantastic opportunity for a talented Business Development Director with an immediate start in Paris.  A key responsibility will be to contact potential business partners and to research investment and business opportunities.  You will negotiate licensing and contract terms and help with other business projects and initiatives. 

The ideal candidate will have strong verbal and written communication skills in English and another European language with experience in the online games industry.  You will have at least three years of deal negotiation and business development experience

Concept Artist

6 month contract

South East, UK

Amazing studio with a reputation for high visual quality is looking for a talented and experienced Concept Artist to join the team on a 6 month contract.

• Excellent life drawing sketches
• Advanced understanding of colour and perspective
• Demonstration of a concept’s evolution from rough ideation to a final tight drawing or "blueprint"
• An excellent understanding of the principles of design
• Good verbal and written English skills
• 2+ years industry experience

Please send CVs to George@datascope along with your portfolio (applications without portfolios will not be reviewed)

Note that this is an inhouse onsite role and not available as freelance or remote work. Unfortunately it is only available to candidates with a current right to work in the UK.

Would you like to be a part of an award-winning studio?

An amazing opportunity is available for a talented and technically skilled Producer/Project Manager who can hit the ground running.

The successful candidate will meet with customers to identify their needs.  You will coordinate, track and manage staff activity and conduct interviews of potential personnel.  Another key responsibility will be to manage the strategic development programme with senior management.

To be considered for this role you will be educated to degree level with 3 years’ experience in a similar role within the games industry.  The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of internet technologies and concepts, software development and project management methodologies.

Experience in financial, SLA, F2P Product Management and web services development are beneficial.

The client is offering an attractive salary with excellent benefits.

Our client is a well known name in the games industry, seeking a talented mid or senior level producer for an exciting role in mainland Europe. The studio focuses is on high-end action titles for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. They are working on 2 unannounced titles with one of the industry's top producers. With at least 1 shipped title under their belt, the successful candidate will be experienced with Agile methodology and production pipelines. Japanese language skills a bonus!

Our client is an award winning AAA studio in Europe, developing AAA action titles for consoles and PC. They are owned by one of the games industry's heavyweights.

Would you like to work with a team that consistently ships innovative and over-the-top action games and/or help define the UI on their next project?

Responsibilities:
- Working closely with Art and Design leads to insure that UI meets aesthetic and functional requirements.
- Define and lead UI prototyping
- Careful attention to detail, especially with regard to compliance, layout and design
- Architecting, planning and implementing new UI systems.
- Optimizing and bug fixing existing UI systems.
- Contribute ideas toward all aspects of the game’s production and development.
- Write robust, maintainable code.

Qualifications:
- 3+ years of relevant programming experience.
- Experience building User Interfaces for Games.
- Expert in C/C++ and object-oriented programming.
- Experience working with a cross-platform engine.
- Shipped at least one console title.
- Self-motivated, strong work ethic, able to work independently.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Preferred Experience:
- Previous Unreal Engine experience.
- Scaleform and/or Flash ActionScript experience.
- Experience working with Xbox Live, PSN or both.
- Experience working on action games desirable.

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Please contact me for a full job description and to apply.

Every single one of the 200 developers at this studio shares a passion for games - it shines through their impressive track record.  Their advanced, integrated platform of technology & tools, which they've been evolving for 14 years, helps them maximise the care and attention to detail they put into all aspects of their work as they continue to drive towards their vision: of videogames being the world's premier form of entertainment.  They're committed to making innovative, quality games.
 
They have an exciting, varied crop of current projects and they want talented individuals to work with them.  They've got a great work environment based in Cambridge, a fun university city with a good quality of life, and they make sure it's both a stimulating place to work and a meritocracy.  They care about career development, encourage ideas and contribution and enthuse their staff to keep improving, whatever their chosen discipline and stage of career - They're big enough to be professional, and flexible enough for everyone to make a difference.

They pride theselves on the high-performance cross-platform engine technology that powers their games and are currently looking for graphics programmers to help take this even further, supporting new platforms and developing new cutting edge features. Help build the technology to deliver fantastic visual quality for the future classics they are creating.

Your background:
- 2 or more years' games industry experience.
- Graphics programmer on at least one game.
- Enjoy exploring new graphics technology.

Your skills:
- Advanced programming in C++ and HLSL.
- Strong 3D Maths.
- Expert knowledge of modern rendering pipelines.
- Familiarity with real-time rendering techniques.
- Optimisation for different hardware architectures.

Every single one of the 200 developers at this studio shares a passion for games - it shines through their impressive track record.  Their advanced, integrated platform of technology & tools, which they've been evolving for 14 years, helps them maximise the care and attention to detail they put into all aspects of their work as they continue to drive towards their vision: of videogames being the world's premier form of entertainment.  They're committed to making innovative, quality games.
 
They have an exciting, varied crop of current projects and they want talented individuals to work with them.  They've got a great work environment based in Cambridge, a fun university city with a good quality of life, and they make sure it's both a stimulating place to work and a meritocracy.  They care about career development, encourage ideas and contribution and enthuse their staff to keep improving, whatever their chosen discipline and stage of career - They're big enough to be professional, and flexible enough for everyone to make a difference.

Their games have earned a reputation for visual excellence and they are currently looking for real-time graphics programmers to help raise the quality bar even further. Working with and contributing to the development of an established, high performance in-house engine, you will be passionate about achieving excellent real-time rendering results for next generation of video games.

Your background:
- 2 or more years' games industry experience.
- Graphics programmer on at least one Xbox 360 game.
- Passion for creating beautiful graphics.
- Enjoys working with artists and other content creators.

Your skills:
- Advanced programming in C++ and HLSL.
- Familiarity with the Direct3D graphics pipeline.
- Awareness of tools pipelines for asset creation.
- Profiling and optimising for performance and memory use.