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Technical Artist (Generalist) – Unity at Latent Technology
At Latent, we’re reinventing how games are made using cutting-edge AI. We’re building a new foundation for interactive movement based on real-time physical behaviors and AI – a system that could redefine how games are created and experienced. To get there, we’re tackling some of the most challenging and beautiful problems in game technology.
We’re looking for a versatile, London-based Technical Artist who can bring this technology to life visually and sensorially inside Unity. You have a broad creative and technical background: you know how to make a scene feel right – whether that means tuning shaders, lighting, and materials, integrating characters and props, connecting sounds to in-game events, or building small moments that showcase emergent gameplay. You’re as comfortable experimenting as you are polishing, and you are passionate about finding interesting ways to showcase technology.
Requirements:
- Deep Unity experience (materials, shaders, VFX, lighting, post-processing, optimization).
- Ability to create or modify assets in Blender, Maya, or Substance 3D.
- Understanding of sound integration (Unity Audio, FMOD, Wwise, or equivalent).
- A strong eye for aesthetics and detail.
- Curiosity, independence, and the ability to experiment across disciplines.
- Self-driven/have a growth mindset: ability to collaborate, but also take the lead and work independently when needed.
Lead UI Artist at CD PROJEKT RED
CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Lead UI Artist to bring immersive and visually striking user interfaces to life in Cyberpunk 2. As a Lead UI Artist, you will play an important role in defining and maintaining the visual language of our UI, ensuring it not only fits the Cyberpunk aesthetic but also enhances gameplay and player immersion.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience as a UI artist in the games industry, including at least 2 years in a leadership role.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in crafting UI for AAA titles and maintaining a cohesive art style.
- Proficiency in Adobe Suite, Figma or other relevant software.
- Strong artistic sense, with the ability to balance creative, stylized aesthetics and user-centered functionality.
- Experience leading and mentoring other artists, with excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated experience in adapting design principles to create unique, recognizable UI that reflects the cyberpunk theme.
- Proficiency in typography, color theory, and layout.
- Ability to deliver and receive feedback in a productive and accountable manner.
Lead Environment Artist at MachineGames
MachineGames is looking for a new Lead Environment Artist to join the studio. In this role, you will be working in close collaboration with our Art Director and our other Leads to help bring our visions to life and create amazing worlds that the players can enjoy for many years to come.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience in a lead role throughout a whole AAA development cycle, successfully leading others towards a common goal.
- Experience with game level production, with a heavy focus on layout, composition, and visual hierarchy.
- A track record of exploring new trends and innovations within the discipline of environment art and applying them to work.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written in English.
- CV in English.
Senior Concept Artist at SEGA
As a Senior Concept Artist, you will work directly with the Art Director and Lead Concept Artist, as well as other internal Art/Gameplay disciplines, to develop and communicate the vision and universe of our game setting, collaborating with multiple disciplines and production to track work and support team goals aligned with the game's direction.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
- High quality and proven skillset in Visual Design and idea generating – from sketch, thumbnail, reference gathering to final well communicated concept art
- Strong relevant portfolio
- Comfortable with innovative exploration and brainstorming alongside multiple disciplines
- Particularly strong skillset within highly functional Environmental Design, setting, and prop designing
- Experience working with the game/or film industry
- Strong skills in Photoshop or similar digital Software
- Ability to understand and communicate the visual Creative Direction while being able to consider the constraints laid out by the technical/gameplay requirements of the game
- Self-management, the ability to plan and provide reliable time estimates that meet project goals and deadlines
- Great core understanding of the process of visual design, alongside the current production pipelines in game development
Environment Artist III (NST) Nintendo of America
You will work directly with art leadership to help visualize and develop visual targets, take ownership of a specialized artistic area of a product’s development, and lead members of the art production team in the assigned project. You will also create visual assets for game development products that meet required direction and quality specifications and create illustrations, models, textures, environments, objects, and animations for 3D and 2D visual assets.
Requirements:
- 5 or more years of professional experience in game development.
- Proven artistic and technical skills in 3D and or 2D art production.
- Strong communication skills to effectively communicate techniques to other members of the team.
- Experienced with game development pipelines and game engines (e.g., Unreal, Unity, or a proprietary engine)
- Proven proficiency with commercial art production software (e.g., Photoshop, Maya, ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, etc.)
- Undergraduate degree in art or related field; or equivalent education and experience.
Environment Artist at CAPCOM
You will create high-quality environment assets optimized for real-time rendering, collaborate with Level Designers and other artists to build out levels and environments within the engine editor, and keep current with best practices and art creation workflows. Moreover, you will partner with Technical Artists to define workflows and provide best practices documentation.
Skills and Requirements:
- Minimum 3+ years of experience creating high-quality environment art for games/film
- Expertise with standard 2D and 3D applications (Photoshop, Substance 3D Painter, Maya, ZBrush)
- In-depth knowledge of modeling for game-ready assets and optimization techniques
- Strong knowledge of PBR material and texture workflows
- Self-motivated, team player with good communication skills
- Ability to create high-quality, photorealistic game environment-ready assets
- Able to adapt to new workflows, techniques, and learn new art creation packages
Senior Lighting Artist – Dead By Daylight at Behaviour Interactive
As part of the lighting team on Dead By Daylight, you’ll play a key role in shaping immersive visual atmospheres, working closely with the Art Direction to define the tone, color palette, and mood of each scene. This position emphasizes technical execution over artistic vision, requiring a high level of technical proficiency, while also necessitating thoughtful collaboration with the Tech Art team to ensure performance optimization.
You’ll be involved in managing cinematics, scripted events, fog, and post-process effects to enhance the overall experience. If you’re passionate about turning creative ideas into impactful visual storytelling through meticulous technical application, this role is made for you.
What we're looking for:
- 5 years of professional experience designing lighting for games.
- Solid technical knowledge of creating runtime lighting in game engines.
- Strong understanding of art fundamentals and design principles, including composition and color theory.
- A deep understanding of real-time lighting pipelines, rendering processes, and optimization techniques within game engines.
- The ability to debug and optimize complex lighting scenarios in live game services like Dead by Daylight.
- Familiarity with advanced lighting technologies such as Global Illumination and Lumen.
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