Senior Technical Artist

Permanent

Midlands, UK

Senior TA / Tech Artist required with a fantastic AAA studio in the Midlands. They're looking for someone technically savvy, but also bright and communicative, to serve as a lynchpin in the studios bridging between creative and technical.

Duties

• Continual evaluation of art creation pipelines to assess their effectiveness in the project’s given development environment. Working with senior art and technical representatives as well as the central technology team to ensure adherence to company standard procedures and best practice.
• The creation of tools and scripts, as well as the design and implementation of processes that improve all areas of the art pipeline. This can include writing scripts in Python, MEL, or Z-Scripts; and may extend to full tool creation within an application’s API, or in some Windows based environments.
• The creation of pixel and vertex shaders by either writing them in HLSL, Cg, or MetaSL; or by using in house shader graph creation applications.
• The design and implementation of new procedures to improve the techniques and pipelines of all areas of development including lighting, surfacing (shaders and materials), post processing, and special effects.
• To effectively document and communicate pipeline and technology updates to relevant parties including management and the central tech team.
• To create and iteratively develop game assets from inception to final review on the target hardware using appropriate tools within BlitzTech

Essentials

• An in-depth knowledge of applicable content creation applications such as Maya, Photoshop, and Zbrush.
• A good knowledge of game development tools and pipelines in such environments as Unreal Engine, CryEngine, Gamebryo, or BlitzTech.
• A full and explicit understanding of techniques to accurately simulate surfaces in game. This includes textureing, lighting, shader and material parameter adjustments. This also includes the correct application of any appropriate optimisations required within the BlitzTech approved tool chain and pipeline, whilst keeping the highest possible fidelity in game.
• A good overall understanding of the post processing pipeline and the potential performance issues.

Please send CVs to George@datascope.co.uk

Lead VFX Artist

Permanent

Germany

This is a unique opportunity to define, create and refine all special visual effects for a big name AAA studio, working closely with the Art Director and creative leads to implement their vision.

It is expected that the VFX Artist will be able to creatively problem solve to produce striking and efficient visual effects for the experience. Strong skills in texture creation, coupled with an acute understanding of particle systems and geometry effects are critical. A solid understanding of the technical restrictions of the target platform is essential and the VFX Artist will work closely with Graphical Programmers and Technical Artists to create and implement the effects.

Experience:

• Games or film industry experience having shipped AAA titles as a VFX Artist/Senior/Lead VFX Artist
• Demonstrate excellent technical and artistic VFX skills
• Thorough knowledge and proficiency working with 2D & 3D modelling packages, including but not limited to Photoshop & 3d Studio Max.

Plusses:

• Knowledge of other disciplines within, 3D art, including modelling, lighting, shading, rendering and post process techniques
• Scheduling and documentation experience is a plus
• Basic understanding of scripting within 3d software a plus.

Please send CVs to George@datascope.co.uk

Lead/Senior VFX Artist

Permanent

Midlands, UK

This is a unique opportunity to define, create and refine all special visual effects for a big name AAA studio, working closely with the Art Director and creative leads to implement their vision.

It is expected that the VFX Artist will be able to creatively problem solve to produce striking and efficient visual effects for the experience. Strong skills in texture creation, coupled with an acute understanding of particle systems and geometry effects are critical. A solid understanding of the technical restrictions of the target platform is essential and the VFX Artist will work closely with Graphical Programmers and Technical Artists to create and implement the effects.

Experience:

• Games or film industry experience having shipped AAA titles as a VFX Artist/Senior VFX Artist
• Demonstrate excellent technical and artistic VFX skills
• Thorough knowledge and proficiency working with 2D & 3D modelling packages, including but not limited to Photoshop & 3d Studio Max.

Plusses:

• Knowledge of other disciplines within, 3D art, including modelling, lighting, shading, rendering and post process techniques
• Scheduling and documentation experience is a plus
• Basic understanding of scripting within 3d software a plus.

Please send CVs to George@datascope.co.uk

3D Environment Artist

Souht East / Midlands, UK

Permanent

Top name AAA studio looking to take on an experienced Environment Artist with a strong portfolio of realistic environments and props. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone looking to get a great brand name on their CV and even better for anyone who wants to get involved on a real top quality project.

Requirements:

·        Expert knowledge of Max/Maya

·        Expert knowledge of Photoshop

·        Knowledge of games development pipeline/environment/engines

·        Self motivated, good communicator, positive can do attitude, team-player

If you'd like to hear more, or to apply, send your CV together with your portfolio to George@datascope.co.uk

Please note that this is a permanent in house opportunity and unfortunately only candidates with the right to work in the UK will be accepted.

Senior 3D Environment Artist

Germany

Permanent

One of the biggest and hottest names in triple-A gaming is looking for a Senior 3D Environment Artist to work on a permanent basis onsite at their studios in Germany.

Senior 3D Character Artist

Germany

Permanent

One of the biggest and hottest names in triple-A gaming is looking for a Senior 3D Character Artist to work on a permanent basis onsite at their studios in Germany.

Senior Environment Artist

Permanent Vacancy

Illinois, USA

The Senior Emvironment Artist's primiary responsiblity will be to define the content and style guidelines of all the studio's games. This is a key role and will have a huge influence on the creative output for the games and for the inspiration for production artists. Ideally the Senior Environment Artist will have low poly modeling knowledge and a generalist approach to game genres and styles.

Requirements:

At least 7-8 years experience in character modelling

Proficient in Maya, Photoshop, and Zbrush

Have worked on *at least* 3 shipped titles

Knowledge of Unity 3D Engine is a plus

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

Senior Character Modeling Artist

Permanent Vacancy

Illinois, USA

The Senior Character Modeling Artist's primiary responsiblity will be to define the content and style guidelines of all the studio's games. This is a key role and will have a huge influence on the creative output for the games and for the inspiration for production artists. Ideally the Senior Character Modeling Artist will have low poly modeling knowledge and a generalist approach to game genres and styles.

Requirements:

At least 7-8 years experience in character modelling

Proficient in Maya, Photoshop, and Zbrush

Have worked on *at least* 3 shipped titles

Knowledge of Unity 3D Engine is a plus

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

VFX Artist / Visual Effects Artist

Permanent

South East, UK

The successful VFX Artist will be expected to:

• Create special effects in particles (fire, water, explosions, impacts) with the in-house particle editor
• Liaise with Team members across departments to ensure the implementation is matching the intention
• Model 3D objects and create the necessary textures for the effects

They will require:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in special effects
• Excellent capacity for analysis and observation, able to recreate natural environments (fire, water explosions) in special effects in games
• In depth knowledge of Max/Maya and Photoshop
• Ability to create particle systems and other CGI techniques

Please send CVs to George@datascope.co.uk together with examples of your work.

George Frederick Sanders

Art & Animation Consultant

Datascope Recruitment

UI Artist (Experienced, Senior, and Lead)

Permanent

Midlands, UK

The UI Artist will be responsible for concepting and implementing key areas of the games presentation, and will also be working with both Design and Engineering teams in areas of flow and functionality, to ensure a seamless user experience. The ideal UI Artist must be flexible, highly motivated and detail conscious.

This is an excellent opportunity for experienced, creative artists who are looking to further their career with an ambitious developer.

Please send CVs in Word format to George@datascope.co.uk along with some examples of your work.