Lead Level Artist

Leadership

• Lead a team and foster an engaging atmosphere within their team to achieve best possible result for the project and personal growth of team members.

Maintain artistic direction and quality

• Creating world geometry and composition for levels in Unreal Engine.
• Maintain technical consistency of all environment art created by the environment art team.
• Ensure that all created assets efficiently satisfy all technical engine and design requirements.
• Collaborate on setting artistic vision with the Art Director, as well as maintaining the quality standards across the entire development pipeline.

Production/Deadline

• Produce work within specifications and maintain workflow pipelines within given deadlines.
• Work closely with the production team on tasks assignment and schedule to meet deadlines, also ensuring healthy work-life balance by setting clear expectations and scope of work.
• Supervision of bug fixing and describing R&D case studies in knowledge base.

Feedback

• Provide day-to-day feedback improvement to visual quality.
• Working with the team to find solutions and creatively solve problems.

Collaboration/communication

• Knowledge sharing and mentoring peers.
• Collaborate with Tech Art and drive R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively across departments with other Leads, Directors, and project stakeholders to ensure efficiency and minimize miscommunication.
• Conduct consistent performance and compensation reviews of staff members.
• Conduct recruitment projects with HR collaboration.
• Conduct onboarding to new hires.

Requirements

• 7+ years in console or PC game development including 5+ years in unreal engine and prior experience in any leadership capacity.
• A strong portfolio showcasing AAA quality level art done in engine (Unreal, Unity or Proprietary Engine).
• Excellent knowledge of industry-standard software packages for modeling, high-poly sculpting (Maya, Max, ZBrush, Photoshop, or their equivalents).
• Artistically interpret concepts or creatively push beyond an initial ideation.
• A solid understanding of traditional art skills along with foundational design competencies (shape, form, texture, value and color).
• Experience working with Unreal Engine.
• Mastery of modular workflows.
• Skilled in using PBR shaders and normal maps on a daily basis.
• industry-standard software packages for 3D modeling, high poly sculpting, and texture painting (Maya, Max, ZBrush, Photoshop, or their equivalents).
• Skilled at balancing art quality and performance in the game engine.
• Advanced knowledge of current level art workflows and practices.
• Demonstration of narrative set dressing.Adaptive.
• Ability to adapt, and develop specific art style, techniques and workflows with minimum guidance.
• Strong mentoring, coaching and leadership skills.
• Ability to collaborate with department leads, and different departments to solve artistic and technical challenges.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Self-motivation.

Nice to have:

• Traditional art skills along with core graphic design competencies (composition and layout, typography, color and light).
• Environment modeling skills.
• Visual scripting skills.
• Procedural Generation tools.
• Mastery of Zbrush.
• Houdini Experience.
• Level Design experience.