Blackmill GAMES - Environment Artist​/Nb

Black Mill Games is looking for an experienced (mid - senior)
Environment Artist with a passion for history to work on our series of WW1-themed multiplayer first-person shooters. We are looking for a passionate artist who can bridge the gap between Level art, Design and our 3D/Prop artists.

• Create immersive environments: Design and develop expansive maps in large-scale environments, set dressing of POI’s in the maps.

• Prototyping and content planning: Work hand in hand with level design, prototyping designs, work out designs into optimized modular sets, plan level content, guard over scoping, and estimate time.

• Maintain quality standards: Ensure environments meet quality and technical standards, keep checks on optimization. Uphold naming conventions and storing source assets.

• Cross-team collaboration: Work together with the Art Director, level designers and 3D/Prop Artist. Ensuring seamless collaboration and bridging between departments.

• Innovation and Knowledge sharing: Involvement and development of using and sharing tools to improve visual quality and optimize workflows. Documenting workflows for internal sharing between artists and other departments.

• Artistic skills:
  • Interpreting reference images or concept art and faithfully & accurately recreating it into the 3D World
  • Sense of scale and Composition
  • Keen eye for Color and materials
• 3D
  
  Skills:
  • Creating accurate blockout models
  • Converting blockouts into workable modular sets
  • High to lowpoly workflow
  • UVing, Baking and Texturing
  • Working with Trimsheets
  • Full understanding of modelling to create high-quality architecture and organic models

• Game engine experience:
  • Understanding of importing and setting up assets in the engine
  • Understanding of tools to set dress in the engine
  • Understanding of landscape tools
• Fully Remote work experience:
  • Self motivated
  • Collaborative mindset

• Affinity for World War One
• Passionate gamer
• Experience with SVN
• Unity 6:
  • HDRP pipeline
  • Lighting
  • Shaders
  • Artistic Tools
• Sculpting
• Creating materials