We are working with a AAA racing game studio based in the Midlands, UK who is looking for a UI Artist to join their team on a 12 month contract and work on their world-famous racing title.

What will you be doing?

• Creating top quality UI art
• Design and implementation of integral aspects of the overall presentation
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team of designers and coders

• Able to demonstrate excellent skills in Graphic Design
• Knowledge of UI/UX Design
• Adobe Suite
• Motion Graphics and Typography
• Interpersonal and communication skills

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 jane@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1744.

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.

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

What will you be doing?

• Participating in the establishment of the project's cinematic direction and style
• Defining goals and leading the cinematic animation team
• Participating in scheduling of artists and resources
• Improving the overall quality of the tools, workflow and pipelines
• Mentoring junior members of the team
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team of coders, artists and designers

Who you are

• 5+ years in Animation in the games industry
• Leadership skills
• Knowledge of the animation pipeline and processes involved in the full development lifecycle
• 3D software e.g. Maya, 3DS Max, Motionbuilder...
• Story telling and animation techniques/principles
• Interpersonal and communication skills

Benefits

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 jane@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1741.

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

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

What will you be doing?

• Working in a multi-disciplinary team of art, narration, audio, code and design
• Creating compelling cinematic material 
• Making character performances which are emotionally engaging through the use of cutscenes and cinema
• Working on all stages of production from conception through to finalised implementation
• Participating in the improvement of cinematic pipeline, processes and tools

Who you are

• Appreciation of animation pipeline and processes at all stages of the development lifecycle
• 3D software e.g. Maya, 3DS Max, Motionbuilder...
• Animation principles, staging and character posing
• Interpersonal and communication skills

Benefits

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 jane@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1740.

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 3D Animator to join their studio and work on their exciting new unannounced project. 


What will you be doing?

• Rendering 3D animations
• Preparing objects, characters, environments...
• Ensuring work meets the design vision and adheres to prototypes
• Participating in motion capture sessions

Who you are

• Previous experience in animation in the video games industry
• 3D production software e.g. 3D Max, Motion Builder…
• 3D Engines e.g. Unity, Unreal…
• Image-editing software e.g. Photoshop
• Appreciation of human anatomy and movement
• Interpersonal and communication skills

Benefits

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 jane@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1736.

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

We are working with a game studio based in Scotland who is looking for a Vehicle Artist to join their team and work on their exciting new pillar title. 

What will you be doing?

• Building high resolution 3D vehicles
• Reviewing and refining outsourced vehicle assets
• Ensuring in-game physical and visual aspects are implemented realistically
• Developing relevant shaders set ups
• Mentoring junior members of the team
• Evaluating and implementing final vehicles into the game engine

• Previous experience in the games industry as a Vehicle Artist
• Able to demonstrate a portfolio of high resolution 3D vehicles, textures and UV maps
• PBR, normal map and texture creation
• Hard surface/vehicle shaders
• Hard surface modelling
• Modern 3D modelling tools e.g. 3DS Max, Maya...
• Appreciation of vehicle and industrial design
• Sculpting e.g. in ZBrush...a bonus
• Interpersonal and communication skills

We are working with a game studio based in Scotland who is looking for a Senior Environment Artist to join their team and work on their exciting new pillar title. You will be creating beautiful interiors for key locations.

What will you be doing?

• Building high resolution 3D interiors environment art
• Integrating art aesthetics into next gen 3D authoring techniques
• Creating a large variety of environment assets
• Ensuring play spaces and environments are unique and engaging
• Developing the art pipeline
• Mentoring junior members of the team
• Implementation and evaluation of final environment assets into the game engine

• 4+ years in the games industry in an Art position
• Able to demonstrate a portfolio of high resolution 3D assets, textures and UV maps
• Modern 3D modelling tools e.g. 3DS Max, Maya...
• Texture creation/authoring tools e.g. Substance...
• Game engine experience e.g. Unreal, Unity...
• Understanding of architecture and design
• Interpersonal and communication skills

We are working with a game studio based in Scotland who is looking for a Senior UI Technical Artist to join their team and work on their exciting new pillar title.

What will you be doing?

• Integrating UI into the game e.g. inventory screens, HUD elements, icons...
• Workflow maintenance
• Building pipeline for swift UI asset iteration
• Tool creation for the assistance of advanced UI delivery
• Ensuring the UI is both compelling and consistent

• 4+ years in the games industry in a similar role
• Able to demonstrate a portfolio of relevant UI work samples
• Appreciation of UI art pipelines, rendering budgets and memory
• Programming languages e.g. Python, C++...
• Knowledge of 2D, graphic design and game graphics
• 2D authoring tools e.g. Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, After Effects...
• 3D skills a bonus
• Degree in graphic design/UI design/interactive media/similar a bonus

We are working with a game studio based in Scotland who is looking for a Character Artist to join their team and work on their exciting new pillar title.

What will you be doing?

• Building high resolution 3D characters including props and various clothing styles
• Adhering to the predefined artistic requirements when creating assets
• Refining outsourced character assets
• Integrating scanned data into into sculpt-based workflows
• 3D content iteration
• Mentoring junior members of the team
• Evaluating final characters into the game engine

• 2+ years in the games industry as a Character Artist
• Able to demonstrate a portfolio of high resolution 3D characters, UV maps and textures
• PBR, normal map and texture creation
• Texture authoring tools e.g. Substance...
• Modern 3D modelling tools e.g. 3DS Max, Maya...
• Sculpting e.g. in ZBrush...
• Appreciation of anatomy
• Interpersonal and communication skills

We are working with an innovative VR Studio who is looking for a 3D Artist to join their team and create immersive VR experiences. This role will cover not only games but also education, training and other applications. You will be based in their London office where you will be working with real-world data and streaming it into the virtual reality space. As this is a VR environment, prior experience in the industry is beneficial but not required.

This is an urgent need so applicants from the EU only will be considered, who are able to start immediately or with reasonable notice.


Who you are

• 3D Modelling
• UV Mapping
• Texturing
• Asset and Environment creation
• Rigging
• Lighting
• Rendering
• 3D Animation a bonus
• Some knowldge of programming e.g. C++, C#...a bonus

We are working with a mobile game studio based in Sweden who is looking for a talented UI Designer to join their team.

What will you be doing?

• Building immersive UI Unity solutions
• Implementing complete UI solutions throughout the production lifecycle
• Building upon and creating wireframes, style guides, user flows, prototypes...
• Adhering to the design roadmap when pitching design ideas and decisions
• Keeping in line with fundamental principles e.g. colour theory, visual weight...
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team of artists, programmers and designers

• 2+ years in game development
• 2+ completed projects under your belt
• Can demonstrate a portfolio with a wide variety of art styles
• Unity
• Proficient in tools e.g. Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision, UXPin, Quartz...
• Previous hand-on experience with wireframes, storyboards, user flows, prototypes...
• Front-end languages e.g. C#, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5...

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a great studio and work on next gen experiences. This studio offers a diverse and comfortable working environment.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as a Word document as well as your portfolio to jane@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1707.

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

We are working with a mobile game studio based in Sweden who is looking for a talented Concept Artist to join their team and create fantastic 2D assets.

What will you be doing?

• Building 2D/concept art
• Implementing 2D assets for easy translation into 3D
• Texturing basic 3D meshes, packaging texture sheets...
• Referring to the design roadmap to pitch your design ideas and decisions
• Adhering to fundamental principals e.g. colour theory, visual weight...
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team of artists, programmers and designers

• 3+ years in game development
• 2+ completed projects under your belt
• ZBrush
• Unity
• Substance/Photoshop/Ddo
• Can demonstrate a wide variety of art styles
• Design skills e.g. effective use of colour, lighting, composition, form...
• Building readable designs for props, environments, characters, vehicles and weapons...for 3D assets
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong traditional arts a bonus

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a great studio and work on next gen experiences. This studio offers a diverse and comfortable working environment.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as a Word document as well as your portfolio to jane@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1706.

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

We are working with a leading AAA racing game studio based in Warwickshire, UK who is looking for a Principal UX Designer to join their team and work on their pillar titles.

What will you be doing?

• Concept wireframe, user flow diagram and prototype creation
• Development of UI/UX user stories, user testing, feedback loops and scenarios
• User experience best practices
• Mentoring junior members of the team

• 7+ years in a similar role
• Educated to degree level
• JIRA and MS Office
• Agile, MVP and lean methodologies
• Proficient with data and AB testing
• Appreciation of psychology, cognitive science and user behaviour
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Previous monetization design/strategy stakeholder experience a bonus

We are working with a leading AAA game studio based in the North-East of England who is looking for a Lighting Artist to join their team and work on their exciting new third-person shooter title.

What will you be doing?

• Implementing and designing lighting for the project environment
• Participating in lighting across multiple projects
• Assisting in the pitching of future projects

• 3+ years in AAA games or films
• Lighting and colour theory
• Real-time rendering and post FX
• Level lighting and post FX in real-time engine 
• Physical shaders including how they interact with lighting and post FX
• Unreal 4 a bonus

We are working with a mobile game studio based in Germany who is looking for a UI Artist to join their team and work on their mobile and social games, enjoyed by over one million users worldwide.

What will you be doing?

• Designing the player user interface for existing and future titles
• Refining UI elements, animations and graphics e.g. menus, buttons, icons, visual assets...
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team of artists, UX, designers and programmers
• Building upon the existing style, ensuring it is consistent

• 2+ years as a UI/Game Artist
• Educated to degree level in a design, art, digital media field or similar
• Game production process experience
• Photoshop and Illustrator
• Good knowledge of casual games and mobile interfaces
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Unity a bonus

We are working with a leading AAA game studio based in the South-East of England who is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to join their team and work on their exciting new projects.

What will you be doing?

• Proactively identifying and providing solutions potential issues
• Increasing quality and efficiency through new technique implementation
• Ensuring content will run smoothly across multiple platforms
• Working with both the Art and Code team
• Tools testing
• Documentation

• 5+ years in the games industry
• 2+ released titles (AAA a bonus)
• Unreal Engine 4 production level shader and optimisation experience
• Blueprints and implementation
• Substance Painter/Designer, Zbrush...
• Interpersonal and communication skills

• 3DS Max experience in a Technical Artist role
• Maxscript programming and other programming languages
• Houdini
• Data management
• Leadership skills

We are working with a leading AAA game studio based in the North-East of England who is looking for an Art Director to join their team and work on their exciting new 3rd person action shooter game.

What will you be doing?

• Setting the visual content through management of the art teams
• Project planning and pitching
• Enuring necessary techniques and tools are available
• Mentoring and providing feedback to the team

• 7+ years in game development
• 3+ released titles
• 3+ years in a leading art position
• Appreciation of modern game art production pipeline and practices
• Knowledge of current games as well as their competition
• Art software packages
• Colour theory, composition, staging techniques
• Asset generation through engine and tool sets
• Interpersonal and communication skills

We are working with a leading AAA game studio based in the North-East of England who is looking for a Senior Character Artist to join their team and work on their exciting new projects. You will be given the opportunity to help lay out the standard for the project model creation.

What will you be doing?

• Following studio guidleines when transferring high-poly models to low-poly
• Efficient mesh creation
• Producing assets using the baking pipeline
• Creating top quality textures
• Documentation for character production techniques and pipelines
• Working alongside the Concept Art team, as well as Riggers and Animators
• Supervising junior member of the team

• Previous experience as a Character Artist in the video games or feature film industry
• Able to use traditional 3D and sculpting packages to create high polygon models
• Demonstrate a range of art styles
• 3D packages e.g. Max, Maya...
• 2D programs e.g. Photoshop...
• Mudbox/Zbrush
• Substance Painter
• Shader skills
• Mesh creation showing excellent structure as well as being suitable for animation
• Appreciation of anatomy

• Experience with game engines e.g. UE4...
• Hard surface modelling
• Technical art
• Engine shaders and material creations
• Scripting experience
• Production of high resolution marketing materials
• Concept art

We are working with a leading AAA game studio who is looking for Senior VFX Artists to join their team in their studios based in the Midlands and the South-East of England. You will be responsible for the outstanding VFX across multiple titles.

What will you be doing?

• Building real-world VFX
• Ensuring VFX is optimised to budget, measure and test
• Participating in new workflows and techniques
• Creating prototypes
• Ensuring VFX adhere to gameplay requirements
• Technical documentation
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team of Designers, Artists and Programmers to implement the VFX

• 5+ years in real-time VFX in the games industry
• 1+ released AAA title
• UE4 - Cascade, Niagara...
• Appreciation of real-time VFX authoring tools
• 3D packages for 3D asset creation
• Photoshop and After Effects
• Appreciation of real-time VFX principles
• Knowledge of the VFX impact on console performance
• Mentoring skills

We are working with a AAA game studio with studios based in key English citiies who is looking for Senior Environment Artists to join their team and work on their exciting projects.

What will you be doing?

• Ensuring top quality environment artwork
• Communicating level design ideas with the design team
• Mentoring other members of the team
• Ensuring consistency of the artistic style

• 5+ years in the games industry
• 2+ released titles (AAA a bonus)
• Strong 3D art and compositional skills
• 3DS Max, Zbrush, Substance Painter/Designer, Photoshop...
• Strong Unreal Engine 4
• Interpersonal and communication skills

We are working with a fantastic online multiplayer studio based in Shanghai who is looking for multiple Technical Artists to join their team and work on their MMO RPG, which is looking to be a hit within the Western market.

What will you be doing?

• Researching game engine tools
• Technical art related problem solving
• Art workflow optimisation
• Engine tool development
• Pipeline of art resource development optimisation

• 1+ years in Technical Art or 3D Graphics
• Educated to degree level in Computer Science/Art or another relevant area
• 3D Engines e.g. Unreal, Unity3D
• 3D art production tools e.g. DirectX3D, OpenGL, Render Pipeline, Shader...
• Game art resource pipelines
• PBR processes
• Graphics algorithms and programming languages e.g. C++, Python...a bonus

We are working with a AAA, family-friendly game studio based in Yorkshire, UK who is looking for a Gameplay Animator to join their team and work on their world-famous pillar titles.

What will you be doing?

• Creating high quality gameplay animations
• Ensuring fantastic character characterisation
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team of Animators, Riggers, Artists, Programmers, Producers and Designers

• Educated to degree level OR equivalent animation experience
• Maya
• Strong characterisation animation skills
• Animation principals and processes
• Unity/Unreal a bonus
• Game industry experience a distinct bonus

This company offers a competitive salary in a friendly and comfortable working environment, as well as a fantastic bonus and pension scheme.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as a Word document as well as your portfolio to jane@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1653.

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 Vehicle Technical Artist to join their team and work on their world-famous racing titles. 

What will you be doing?

• Creating internal art processes
• Guiding vehicle pipeline implementation

• Previous AAA console experience
• Creation pipelines, asset exportation, process automation
• Shader creation & PBR material workflow
• Hard surface modelling/texturing
• MAX/Maya scripting
• Game Engines and toolsets

• C#...
• Lighting/rendering
• Houdini/procedural creation

This is an exciting opportunity to have a pivotal impact on a multi-million-pound game project. You will be working in a multidisciplinary and diverse team, be offered a competitive salary, private healthcare, a bonus scheme and free breakfasts.

You will be building something that is uniquely different with a knowledgeable, high-achieving, experienced and driven team that emphasises open communication.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as a Word document as well as your portfolio to jane@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1650.

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

Our client, one of the UK's premiere AAA development studios; well-known for the exacting standards of polish displayed on every title they ship. They are now offering an opportunity for a gifted UX Designer to join their team in their studio based in the Midlands, UK.

What will you be doing?

• Working alongside systems and game designers
• Ensuring players guided through the journey and meta
• Promoting player engagement with the world and systems
• Bridging the gap between design, concept and UI
• Working on monetization systems
• Refining game flow

• Mobile game development experience
• Wireframes and interactive prototypes
• Wireframe packages e.g. Adobe XD, Sketch, Axure...
• User testing, player analysis and iteration
• Appreciation of mobile game interaction and behaviours
• Mobile game design including an understanding of modern mobile devices and their possible constraints
• F2P experience a bonus
• XHTML, Javascript, CSS, C#...a bonus
• Interpersonal and communication skills

This studio offers a competitive salary and annual pay reviews as well as a great work atmosphere.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as a Word document as well as your portfolio to jane@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1424.

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

We are working with a family-friendly, AAA game studio based in Cheshire, UK who is looking for a Lead Maya Rigger to join their team and work on their world-famous pillar titles.

What will you be doing?

• Working with tools and control rigs
• Managing the Rigging team
• Ensuring project aspects are delivered on time
• Pipeline issue identification
• Organisation and appropriate storage of assets
• Integrating characters, rigs and tools into the project data
• Development of existing tools
• Recruitment management
• Employee reviewing and job training

• Educated to degree level in Animation or a related film-making field
• Strong Maya skills
• Unity/Unreal Engine
• MEL/Python scripting
• Animation and Rigging Principles
• Team management
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• C++ a distinct bonus

This company offers a competitive salary in a friendly and comfortable working environment, as well as a fantastic bonus and pension scheme.

Application

Please e-mail your CV as a Word document as well as your portfolio to jane@big-planet.biz quoting reference 1624.

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