Senior Level Artist

Relocation | full time

TinyBuild

is a global video game publisher, and developer focused on creating long-lasting, sustainable franchises across multiple media formats. Responsible for over 70 titles, including Hello Neighbor, Graveyard Keeper, and Potion Craft, the company has a dozen development studios spread across the US, EU, Serbia, and Ukraine.

We are looking for a Senior Level Designer for the Deadside project - a hardcore multiplayer survival first-person shooter with an open world. The game is currently in early access on Steam.

DEADSIDE Official Trailer

Responsibilities:

• Planning and creating game locations in collaboration with the Art Director and other artists;
• Designing photorealistic locations for first-person/third-person view;
• Creating landscape designs with natural elements (forests, rivers, rocks, etc);
• Creating technogenic locations (cities, settlements, industrial areas, military objects, etc);
• Creating and customizing tile textures based on scans or photo textures;
• Creating nature objects based on texture sets derived from real object scans (trees, grass, rocks, etc) and integrating them into game locations;
• Filling existing locations with content;
• Adjusting lighting;
• Sourcing and working with references.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in the gamedev industry as a Level Artist/Level Designer;
• Understanding of spatial composition, color and light theory, perspective, scale, proportions, and landscape formation;
• Strong skills in modeling natural environmental objects (especially vegetation);
• Confident knowledge of Unreal Engine 4 (as an artist), and one of the 3D packages, Photoshop, Substance Designer/Painter (or similar);
• Basic knowledge of gameplay and level design;
• Artistic education: self-taught or academic;
• Possession of a relevant portfolio in a realistic setting.

It would be an advantage:

• Proficiency in World Machine (or similar);
• Basic knowledge of SpeedTree.

We offer:

• Professional development courses, game dev conferences, and other events;
• Possibility to work remotely / relocation (if it is desired). The company covers relocation costs;
• Unlimited paid vacation and paid sick leave;
• Two weeks of corporate holidays simultaneously for the whole team (one in the summer and one during the Christmas and New Year celebrations). This allows you to have a complete break from your tasks and any communication with your team;
• Corporate English classes;
• Corporate hardware.

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