We are working with a fantastic game studio based in the South of France who is looking for a talented Senior Environment Artist to join their team and work on their hit action RPG title for PC. The successful candidate will be given the opportunity to apply their passion and knowledge for the RPG genre and develop their skills in a collaborative environment.

What will you be doing?

• Creating high quality content
• Developing and maintaining top quality game environments
• Delivering work in-line with production schedules
• Accepting and providing feedback
• Prioritising competing demands
• Mentoring less experienced members of the team

• 5+ years' experience as an Environment Artist
• RPG/Action RPG/Fantasy game experience
• A strong portfolio of work to demonstrate a high amount of attention to artistic and technical detail
• Expert knowledge in industry standard tools such as 3ds Max, ZBrush & Photoshop
• A positive attitude with a pro-active approach and a high degree of self-motivation and initiative

We are working with an award-winning AAA game studio based in the Midlands, UK who are seeking an exceptionally talented Lead Cinematic Artist to join their team and work on their highly anticipated action RPG title. You will be given the opportunity to drive forward the stylistic vision of the project while leading and inspiring the cinematic team.

What will you be doing?

• Setting clear and achievable goals
• Taking ownership of the cinematic direction
• Working in a collaborative and multi-disciplinary team of Artists, Coders, Writers and Designers
• Liaising with Marketing Team
• Setting the benchmark to ensure consistency of tone and style is depicted across all cinematic content

• Significant experience in game and/or multimedia projects in a similar role
• A strong eye for visual vocabulary and cinematic language
• Knowledge of the cinematic pipeline throughout development
• 3D software e.g. 3DS Max, Motionbuilder, Maya...
• Cinematic principles and storytelling techniques
• Editorial experience
• Leadership skills

We are working with a world-leading AAA game studio based in the Midlands, UK who is looking for an in-game animator to join their team and work on their super exciting new action RPG title. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a top UK studio and work on their new project at early stages of development. You will be responsible for the animation of in-game content including creatures, characters and props. 

To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate a strong portfolio showing a deep understanding of body mechanics as well as the fundamentals of animation.

Who you are

• 1-3 years in the games industry or a relevant field including AAA
• Experience with interactive storytelling
• Key-frame and motion capture workflows
• Maya and Motionbuilder
• Cinematography and scene staging
• Previous experience with implementing core gameplay systems and mechanics
• Performance capture pipelines a bonus

We are working with a F2P game studio based in the lively, cosmopolitan city of Copenhagen. The studio is looking to hire a VFX Artist to join their team and work on the creative world of a fast-paced game for PC and console.

What will you be doing?

• Real-time in-game visual effects
• Developing and defining the aesthetic style as per the studio vision
• Building on existing VFX content
• Pipeline production
• Ensuring VFX is optimised and performing as intended

• 3+ years as a VFX Artist
• Able to demonstrate a strong portfolio showing off your stylised VFX
• Unity 3D VFX
• Ability to optimise VFX for low performance targets

• Mobile VFX
• Experience working as a VFX Artist on a top-down title
• C#

Benefits

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on an exciting new title currently under NDA. This studio is based in a beautiful, scenic and lively capital city.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as a Word document to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1943.

We are an equal opps company, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.

We are working with a AAA game studio based in the Midlands, UK who is looking for a Texture Artist to join their team and work on their exciting new RPG title. You will be responsible for creating a wide range of materials and textures required for this open world project.

Who you are

• 1+ shipped AAA game on any current-gen console platform
• Appreciation of the technical aspects required for current-gen art production
• Able to demonstrate a strong portfolio showing texture and Substance work 
• Photogrammetry
• PBR rendering and Light Interactions
• Zbrush/Mudbox
• Lighting/Photography skills a bonus
• Knowledge of Photogrammetry Workflows a bonus
• Material pipeline implementation and maintenance a bonus

• Excellent skills in Substance Designer
• Substance Painter
• Shaders
• Asset optimisation
• Efficient tileable texture creation

This studio offers a competitive salary, private healthcare, a bonus scheme and free breakfast.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as well as your portfolio to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1745.

We are an equal opps company, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.

We are working with a proudly independent game studio based in the South of England who is seeking an exceptional Senior Technical Artist to join their team and work on their exciting upcoming next gen projects. This is a fantsatic opportunity to join a diverse and motivated studio and help drive forward a unique AAA experience. 

What will you be doing?

• Developing road maps and tools
• Optimisation of content for memory and performance
• Identifying potential risks
• Developing art production processes
• Participating in best working practice decisions

• 2+ years in the games industry as a Technical Artist
• 1+ released console title under your belt as a Technical Artist
• Educated to degree level in art, design or similar OR relevant training
• Knowledge of art creation pipelines, process automation, procedural creation and asset exporting
• Some experience with rigging/hard surface animation/VFX/lighting/UE4 Blueprints
• Art and animation pipelines
• Game engines e.g. Unreal Engine...
• Industry standard tools e.g. 3DS Max, Maya, Photoshop, Substance...
• Scripting languages e.g. Max Script, Python, C++...a bonus
• Houdini a bonus
• Interpersonal and communication skills

We are working with an award-winning AAA game studio based in the Midlands, UK who are looking for a talented VFX Artist to join their team and work on their exciting upcoming open-world action RPG game. This is a great opportunity to join an outstanding studio and work on a unique project, helping the studio realise their ambitious vision.

What will you be doing?

• Creating in-game assets and real-time effects
• Ensuring all deadlines are met 
• Identifying possible risks and offering solutions for areas of improvement
• Working with cutting edge technology to ensure gameplay cinematic effects and environments are of the highest quality

• Able to demonstrate a strong portfolio showing in-game particle and VFX work
• Commercial or proprietary game engine experience
• Experience creating textures for particle systems using Photoshop/Substance
• 3D software e.g. Max, Maya, Houdini...
• Able to work with 3D graphics, ribbons, physics, particle systems, post process effect, shaders...
• Some animation experience

We are working with a game development studio based in the South of England who is looking for a self-motivated Technical Artist to join their team and work on their exciting upcoming project. This studio is proudly independent and are looking to continue creating exceptional experiences after the huge successes of their several well-known games.

The Technical Artist is responsible for creating top quality animations for both environments and creatures. You will be developing your Technical Art skills while using cutting edge technology to help make this project stunning and innovative.


What will you be doing?

• Working in a multi-disciplinary team of designers, artists, programmers and producers
• Ensuring project milestones are delivered on time
• Communicating your ideas throughout development
• Creating character and prop deformation
• Anticipating bugs in the engine and working to fix them

• 3+ years in the games industry as a Technical Artist
• 1+ released AAA title under your belt
• Rigging and pipelines
• Maya and Substance Designer/Painter
• Modelling/Shaders/Animation/VFX
• Unreal Engine a bonus

Our client is involved in the development of AAA-standard games.They are currently seeking a Character Artist to realise their next title for a year contract.

What will you do?

• Work with the Art Director and Designers to develop production quality characters matching the art and style of the game
• Provision, implementation of assets to a high standard, working with in-house tools to developing the games characters 
• Overseeing the development and work of team members

• 2+ years’ experience working in games, creating high quality 3D character assets, with a detail-oriented, methodical approach and excellence in hard surface modeling
• 2D/3D character design
• Mesh topologies
• Proficiency with 3DS Max, texturing proficiency with Adobe Photoshop, Unity experience beneficial
• PBR texturing using Subtance Painter as well as Substance and Marvellous Designer
• Outsourcing
• Rendering, preferably with V-Ray
• Exterior & Interior·Character Modeling, understanding both artistic and technical aspects of human anatomy, demonstrated in your portfolio

We are working with a fantastic indie game studio based in France who is seeking a talented Cinematic Animator to join their team and work on their exciting new unnanounced title. This is a great opportunity to join a collaborative team and work on a new project from early stages of development.

What will you be doing?

• Animating characters and objects for real-time
• Creating cinematic sequences
• Motion capture sessions
• Ensuring correct integration of animations into the game

• Excellent animation techniques
• Appreciation of anatomy
• Motion Builder
• Able to work with technical constraints associated with level editors and 3D engines

We are working with a fantastic game studio based in France who is seeking an exceptional Lead VFX Artist to join their team and work on their hit RPG action title for PC. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate an exceptional level of knowledge of creating real-time in-game effects as well as researching and visualising spectacular effects.

What will you be doing?

• Creating top quality real-time effects
• Estimating time frames and tracking progress
• Implementation of feedback from the Art Director
• Collaborating with key stakeholders

• 5+ years in the games industry working with Unreal Engine/CryEngine
• 1+ released AAA title under your belt
• Educated to degree level in visual effects or similar
• 2D art tools e.g. Photoshop...
• VFX editors e.g. Fume, PopCornFX...
• Compositing software e.g. After Effects,,,
• 3D software e.g. Houdini, 3DS Max...
• Game editors e.g. Unigine, Uniy, Unreal...
• Scripting e.g. HLSL...
• Knowledge of real-time practices and workflows
• Understanding of shader systems and particle driven effects
• Physically Based Rendering
• Knowledge of modelling, texture mapping, post processing and materials
• French and/or Korean a bonus

We are working with a fantastic game studio based in France who is seeking an exceptional Lead Animator to join their team and work on their hit RPG action title for PC. 

You will be given the opportuinity to develop integral features of this epic project, including human, creature and object animations, and will demonstrate your artistry through a deep understanding of how to positively impact the player experience.

What will you be doing?

• Development of keyframe animations
• Providing improvements to motion capture animations
• Implementing animations into the game engine
• Optimisation of the production process
• Overseeing the Animation team

• 6+ years in Animation in the games industry
• Educated to degree level in Animation
• 1+ RPG/fantasy title under your belt
• Management experience
• Motion Builder
• CryEngine a bonus
• French and/or Korean a bonus

We are working with a world leading AAA game studio based in the Midlands, UK who are seeking an exceptional Lead Animator to join their team and work on their famous pillar racing titles. You will be given the opportuinity to join an award-winning team and help the studio realise their creative vision.

What will you be doing?

• Managing the Animation team
• Creating animation for a wide range of areas including animals, characters, props, vehicles...
• Motion capture and keyframe
• Participating in the improvement of the animation pipelines
• Mentoring junior members of the team

• 3D software e.g. 3DS Max, Maya, Motionbuilder...
• Able to demonstrate a strong portfolio showing a variety of animation styles
• Appreciation of the human form
• Animation networks

Benefits

This studio offers a competitive salary, private healthcare, a bonus scheme and free breakfast.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as a Word document to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1908.

We are an equal opps company, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.

Are you a 3D Animator? Do you have experience in the games industry? Are you interested in working for a leading mobile games studio?

This F2P iOS and Android games studio based in Barcelona, Spain, is looking for a 3D Animator to join their team and work on their games.

What will you be doing?

• Animating characters and environments
• Evaluating animations alongside the outsourcing team

• 2+ years as a 3D animator in the games industry
• 3D packages e.g. Max, Maya...
• Game engines e.g. Unity
• Illustration and Photoshop or similar
• Interpersonal and communication skills

This studio offers a friendly and comfortable working environment as well as breakfast and lunch, fresh fruit, an onsite gym, monthly events, competitive salary...

Application

Please email me your CV as a Word document to cvs@big-planet.biz, quoting reference 1021.

We are an equal opps recruitment agency, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR complaint.

We are working with a fantastic AAA game studio based in the UK who is seeking an exceptional Senior UI Artist to join their team and work on their successful racing titles. This is a great opportunity to join an innovative studio and work from anywhere in the world.

What will you be doing?

• Building beautiful user interfaces
• Branding and core UI documentation
• Implementation of core user experience features

• 5+ years' experience in the games industry in UI design
• 2+ released AAA titles under your belt
• Console/mobile game experience
• Full game lifecycle experience
• GUI tools
• Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects...
• Appreciation and knowledge of UI implementation tools
• Knowledge of implementation pipelines
• Demonstrable skills in Visual Design
• Graphic Design and Motion Graphics
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Console TRCs a bonus
• Adobe PremierPro and InDesign a bonus

This company offers a competitive salary, a state of the art office, generous holiday allowance and fully remote work.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as well as your portfolio to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1885.

We are an equal opps company, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.

We are working with a fantastic AAA game studio based in the UK who are seeking a talented Lead Technical Artist to join their team. This is a great opportunity to join an innovative studio and work from anywhere in the world. You will be an integral member of the team, leading technical artists and driving forward the quality of in-game art and animation.

What will you be doing?

• Leading the Technical Art team
• Collaborating with Tools and Rendering teams to implement pipelines
• Maintenance of internal art processes
• Investigating run-time performance and proposing solutions

• 5+ years in the games industry
• 1+ released AAA title under your belt
• Previous Lead experience
• 3DS Max/Maya scripting
• PBR shader creation
• Understanding of art creation pipelines, asset export and process automation
• Passion for games and driving visual fidelity within them
• Strong problem-solving and creative thinking skills, good communication skills across all levels

This company offers a competitive salary, a state of the art office, generous holiday allowance and fully remote work.

Application

Please e-mail your CV to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1884.

We are an equal opps company, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.

We are working with a fantastic AAA game studio based in the UK who is seeking a talented Vehicle Artist to join their team. This is a great opportunity to join an innovative studio and work from anywhere in the world. You will be granted responsibility to express your artistic flair and passion for vehicles while working on a beautiful AAA title. 

What will you be doing?

• Modelling the exteriors and interiors of the vehicles
• Creating low poly renditions of detailed meshes
• Ensuring progress is reported on frequently
• Ensuring in-game physical and visual aspects are implemented realistically
• Developing relevant shaders set ups
• Evaluating and implementing final vehicles into the game engine

• Previous experience modelling high quality vehicle assets 
• 3D Studio Max
• Photoshop and Substance Painter
• UV mapping
• Low poly modelling 
• JIRA a bonus
• Knowledge of animation, textures and skinning a bonus

This company offers a competitive salary, a state of the art office, generous holiday allowance and fully remote work.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as well as your portfolio to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1883.

We are an equal opps company, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.

We are working with a fantastic AAA game studio based in the UK who are seeking an exceptional Principal VFX Artist to join their team and take ownership of the studio's VFX direction. This is a great opportunity to join an innovative studio and work from anywhere in the world.

What will you be doing?

• Championing the VFX style and vision
• Creating VFX assets and creation pipelines
• Building previs concepts
• Providing support to gameplay requirements
• Documentation of VFX production and implementation procedures

• Able to demonstrate a strong portfolio showing real-time particle effects and photorealistic textures
• Ability to work on particle effects in an Digital Content Creation tool e.g. Nuke, 3DS Max, Maya, Houdini, After Effects...
• Strong ability with 3D game engines
• Photoshop
• Specular, diffuse and normal maps
• 3D software e.g. 3DS Max modelling, UV...
• Scripting experience
• Knowledge and understanding of in-game shaders
• Programming experience a bonus
• Previous professional experience with physics and destructibles a bonus

Benefits

This company offers a competitive salary, a state of the art office, generous holiday allowance and fully remote work.

Application

We are working with a fantastic AAA game studio based in the UK who are seeking an exceptional Principal VFX Artist to join their team and take ownership of the studio's VFX direction. This is a great opportunity to join an innovative studio and work from anywhere in the world.

What will you be doing?

• Championing the VFX style and vision
• Creating VFX assets and creation pipelines
• Building previs concepts
• Providing support to gameplay requirements
• Documentation of VFX production and implementation procedures

• Able to demonstrate a strong portfolio showing real-time particle effects and photorealistic textures
• Ability to work on particle effects in an Digital Content Creation tool e.g. Nuke, 3DS Max, Maya, Houdini, After Effects...
• Strong ability with 3D game engines
• Photoshop
• Specular, diffuse and normal maps
• 3D software e.g. 3DS Max modelling, UV...
• Scripting experience
• Knowledge and understanding of in-game shaders
• Programming experience a bonus
• Previous professional experience with physics and destructibles a bonus

BenefitsThis company offers a competitive salary, a state of the art office, generous holiday allowance and fully remote work.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as well as your portfolio to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1878.

We are working with a fantastic AAA game studio based in the UK who are seeking a talented and passionate VFX Artist to join their team. This is a great opportunity to join an innovative studio and work from anywhere in the world. You will be given the opportunity to work with a successful game studio and create original and beautiful VFX for their pillar titles.

What will you be doing?

• Championing VFX, constantly looking for opportunities where they may enhance the game
• Understanding the value that VFX components can add to all aspects of the gameplay experience
• Working with technical delivery teams to solve technical challenges that keep our VFX at the cutting edge

• 1+ released title under your belt as a VFX Artist
• Able to demonstrate real-time particle effects
• Experience with 1+ game engine
• Previous experience working with 1+ Digital Content Creation tool on physics and destructibles e.g. Maya, Houdini, 3DS Max...
• Photoshop
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Coding/scripting a bonus

This company offers a competitive salary, a state of the art office, generous holiday allowance and fully remote work.

Application

Please e-mail your CV to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1882.

We are an equal opps company, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.

We are working with a leading AAA game studio based in Yorkshire, UK who is looking for a Lead 3D Artist to join their team and work on their exciting new title. You will be responsible for defining the art direction of this AAA project, so will need a deep and broad knowledge of AAA art production.

What will you be doing?

• Delivering all art aspects of a new title
• Taking ownership of high visual quality
• Managing all art disciplines
• Participating in the estimation and scheduling of production

• Multiple shipped AAA titles
• 1+ shipped title as a Lead Artist or similar
• 3D pipelines and asset management
• Interpersonal and communication skills

We are working with an independently owned console game studio based in the South of Germany who is looking for a Lead 3D Artist to join their team and work on their exciting upcoming titles. The successful candidate will be leading a team of 3D Artists and bringing to life the vision of the studio's projects through the Unreal Engine.

What will you be doing?

• Overseeing the production of 3D assets including vehicles, buildings, props and weapons
• Managing outsourcing managers
• Ensuring consistency of style as well as technical requirements
• Evaluating and setting priority tasks
• Regular feedback sessions with the 3D Art team
• Providing improvements to the asset creation workflow

• 5+ years in the games industry in a Senior 3D Art role
• 3+ released titles under your belt as a 3D Artist
• 1+ released title under your belt as a Lead 3D Artist
• Strong leadership skills
• Knowledge of 3D real time engine technical restraints
• Skilled in both realistic and stylised art styles
• Hard surface modeling
• High poly and low poly baking workflow
• Zbrush, Substance Painter, 3DS Max and Photoshop
• Substance Designer, Marvellous Designer, Speedtree and World Machine a bonus
• Experience with Unreal Engine 4 a bonus
• Previous experience working on console games a bonus

This studio offers great work life balance, a great salary package, holidays and a state-of-the-art office.

We are an equal opps company, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.

To apply to this position please send your CV ideally in Word format to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting job reference number 1870.

We are working with an independently-owned console studio based in Southern Germany who are looking for a passionate UI/UX Designer to join their team.

The successful candidate will be working on everything from wire-framing the core UI system to creating UI, icon and motion graphic assets for immersive menus and in-game diegetic UI. 

What will you be doing?

• Ensuring menus and interfaces reflect artistic deliverables while being intuitive and within technical limitations
• Implementing effective interfaces, front-end and in-game HUDs
• Documenting and processing tasks, effectively prioritising and scheduling work-load with minimal guidance
• Taking an active part in researching new techniques, processes, tools and trends to improve workflows business-wide

• Experience of user interface design for video games
• Excellent UX design skills
• Solid graphic design and illustration skills
• Expert with standard art tools of the trade (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
• Experience of UI mock-up / wireframing software
• Knowledge of flow and function of interfaces and their navigation, as displayed on portfolio
• Experience of game engines and the relevant tools for them, capable of learning new tools
• Methodical, self-motivated and a logical problem-solver, understanding the value of teamwork and able to translate direction into innovation
• An excellent communicator, passionate for games and possessing an eye for aesthetics in layouts, web-design, print and typography experience advantageous

Please forward your CV to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1867.

We are an equal opportunity recruitment agency and value diversity. We do not discriminate.

We are a GDPR compliant company.

We are working with an exceptional indie game studio based in France who are seeking a talented Technical Artist to join their team and work on their exciting new simulation project. This is a unique opportunity to apply and develop your technical art skills in a creative environment.

What will you be doing?

• Developing and documenting game art pipelines
• Technical art reviews
• Identifying possible improvements to the efficiency of the current processes and production pipelines
• Streamlining modelling, texturing and visual effects

• Programming shaders e.g. GLSL/HLSL
• Knowledge of pipeline and console rendering techniques
• Appreciation of the technical limitations of optimisation levers
• CG-oriented programming languages
• Image manipulation
• C++/Python/C#
• 3D software packages e.g. 3DS Max...
• Some knowledge of MaxScript
• Substance/Houdini

We value our staff and believe in a great work life balance, good relocation package, competitive salaries, health insurance, meal vouchers...

Application

Please e-mail your CV as a Word document to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1862.

We are an equal opps company, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.

We are working with a highly successful indie game studio based in France who is looking for a talented UI Artist to join their team and work on their upcoming simulation title. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an exceptional studio and work on their exciting and unique project.

What will you be doing?

• Building animated designs for the game's menus
• Developing game features and in-game interfaces
• Ensuring the UI style is aligned with the studio's vision
• Ergonomic problem solving
• Participating in other art areas e.g. marketing...

• Educated to degree level in the video game field
• Able to demonstrate a strong portfolio showing a variety of different art styles
• Excellent knowledge and experience with Ergonomics and Interface Design
• Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe XD, after effect...
• Iconography and typography
• HTML/CSS/JS
• Web design

This studio values their staff and believes in a great work life balance, good relocation package, competitive salaries, health insurance, meal vouchers...

Application

Please e-mail your CV to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1858.

Our client, a leading AAA games studio, have an amazing, unannounced project in early phases. They need an exceptional Senior Technical Artist to join the team.