LogInExciting roles for Artists! Check out this week’s 80 Level Job Digest for top openings at Capcom, Naughty Dog, 2K Games, Rockstar Games, Insomniac Games, Epic Games, and Roblox.
Environment Artist at CAPCOM
You will be involved in all aspects of game production, including background design and 3DCG background model production, working with planners and programmers to create backgrounds in line with the game design, and building a world view that includes gameplay and visualizing it.
Requirements:
- Over 3 years of experience in game or film background production using DCC tools such as Maya
- Over 3 years of experience in the game or film industry
Welcome Conditions:
- Experience in managing schedules and quality, and negotiations with outsourced companies
- Experience as a project leader, or a track record that suggests such qualifications
- Ability to handle a variety of projects
- Flexible thinking
- Highly motivated for high-end graphics
- Want to create and distribute new content to the world
- Experience in game level design (map, stage design)
Senior Character Artist at Naughty Dog
The Character Art team is looking for a highly technical and artistic Senior Character Artist to join our team in creating the next generation of award-winning storytelling! We are looking for an artist who can help create characters, creatures and develop pipelines that help streamline and push boundaries to create compelling characters that fit seamlessly within the narrative-driven worlds we build. By working alongside other departments and disciplines to inform, inspire, collaborate, and develop artistic solutions to technical obstacles, you’ll help ensure our character pipeline is at the forefront of AAA development.
Requirements:
- Highly skilled at working with and defining standards for PBR materials, topology, and in-game character pipelines
- Experience developing shaders with technical artists and programmers
- Intermediate knowledge of Python scripting, not required, but a plus
- Highly skilled at sculpting, modeling, texturing, shading characters and assets for games
- High-level knowledge of hair curve and card creation for next-gen games
- Keen eye to form, lighting, colors, and composition
- Very strong portfolio showing high-quality characters
- At least 5 years of experience as a character artist, working on at least one AAA title
Senior Technical Artist at 2K
You will work closely with the team to refine workflows and content authoring processes, while also mentoring and teaching others on tool usage, technical workflows, and best practices. In addition, you’ll support the team with technical guidance around modern lighting models such as PBR and help ensure real-time performance across a broad range of games. As part of your responsibilities, you will implement and set up assets in the game engine, and assist in supporting tools and pipelines in DCC applications such as Maya, Substance 3D, Photoshop, and Unreal. Furthermore, you’ll be expected to create and maintain shaders and materials of various complexities, styles, and levels of detail, as well as produce written or video documentation to aid in information sharing.
Skills, Experience & Qualifications:
- Experience working with a game engine. (e.g., Unreal, Unity, or AAA proprietary game engines)
- Good understanding of how 3D art assets are created in a professional environment.
- Good understanding of art principles and how they can be applied to video games.
- Experience with driving positive and effective collaborative processes in a team environment.
- Understanding of how tools and pipelines affect the team's development performance and effectiveness.
- Experience with optimising (e.g., LOD, fps performance, memory footprint) assets.
- Experience developing shaders with HLSL or GLSL.
- Experience developing tools with Python, C++, or C# is a plus.
Senior Cinematic Artist at Rockstar Games
Rockstar North is on the lookout for a talented Senior Cinematic Artist to join the team and cover a broad range of media assets. We work closely with the Cinematic Media team from storyboard to asset delivery and help maintain high standards across a wide variety of video and image-based projects. We use our game engine as a blank canvas to build scenes and create a variety of unique narratives. We aim to deliver unique and engaging content on all projects, using storytelling methods, camera work, and editing techniques.
Qualifications:
- Experience creating visual content in digital or standard media (video, photography, gaming, etc.), backed by a showreel.
- An enthusiasm for and extensive knowledge of movies, TV, pop culture, and music videos.
- Deep interest in in-game artistic direction.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Thorough understanding of and passion for Rockstar’s games, specifically.
- Ability to create, capture, and edit in a variety of visual styles.
- Excellent understanding of visual flow and composition.
- Ability to adhere to short-form and long-form deadlines.
- Impeccable attention to detail is a must.
- Strong knowledge of editing software (AVID, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated with the ability to perform jobs efficiently.
- Possess disciplined workflow practices with the ability to multitask and prioritize projects.
- Use own initiative and problem-solving skills to bypass often complex issues.
- Ability to create visuals from detailed briefs.
Senior Character Artist at Insomniac Games
Insomniac is looking for a contract Senior Character Artist. In this role, the Senior Character Artist will be responsible for modeling character art assets (models, textures, and shaders for characters, props, and other key assets) at the highest quality level set by Lead Artists and Art Directors. They mentor, tutor, and assist other artists to improve workflows and content pipelines.
Skills:
- Advanced understanding of Maya (or Max), Substance 3D Painter, ZBrush, Marvelous Designer, or equivalent, and Photoshop.
- Advanced understanding of generating normal maps from high-poly models.
- Advanced understanding of PBR (Physically Based Rendering) shader.
- Advanced understanding of complex node-based shader networks, such as those used in Unreal Engine, Substance 3D Designer, etc. Understanding of source control via Perforce or equivalent.
- Knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite.
- Strong foundation skills with the ability to work with detailed or loose concept art, or reference art/ materials.
- Expert knowledge of human and animal anatomy.
- Advanced understanding of the hair creation process, both card and strand-based.
- Advanced knowledge in organic and hard surface modelling.
- Advanced traditional painting skills and the ability to create models and shaders for a range of art directions, from photorealistic to stylized.
- Ability to meet deadlines under tight schedules.
- Willingness to receive direction from the lead artist and peers, and work closely with a team.
Environment Artist at Epic Games
Epic Games is searching for a highly talented and creative Environment Artist to join our team in building some of the best-looking architecture and POIs in Fortnite. Applicants will need to demonstrate a strong artistic ability, bringing with them a strong understanding of form, function, detail, the skill to interpret concept art, and the technical skills to bring their work to life in Unreal Engine 5. Artists are required to be versatile with the ability to build both organic and hard surface assets. Push your artistic talent to the limit in a team of world-class environment, character, and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
Skills:
- Required: An online portfolio of previous professional and personal work (please provide any needed passwords on your resume)
- Bachelor of Arts degree from an accredited university in the U.S., or its foreign equivalent in Game Art, Digital Arts, Interactive Media, or other related degree
- At minimum, 3 years of professional experience in the video game industry, building architecture, and working on POIs for shipped titles
- At minimum, 1 shipped title that exhibits AAA game-quality art
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
Senior Art Director at Roblox
As a Senior Art Director at Roblox, you will be part of a multidisciplinary creative team responsible for bringing the Roblox brand to life through innovative and scalable creative solutions. In this hands-on role, you will develop original content that supports key areas of the business, including marketing, social media, and on-platform events.
You Have:
- 7+ years of experience, ideally within in-house creative teams or advertising agencies.
- A portfolio demonstrating art direction and visual storytelling skills, with examples of both conceptual thinking and final execution across diverse media.
- Hands-on experience across the creative process, marketing campaigns, graphic design, and brand development.
- Expertise with Adobe Creative Cloud applications.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and manage multiple projects under deadlines. - Strong communication skills, with the ability to present, explain, and advocate for creative ideas across internal teams and leadership.
- A thoughtful, resilient mindset, embracing iteration and feedback as part of the creative process.
- The ability to work independently when needed, optimally managing timelines, deliverables, and input from partners and stakeholders
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