Lead Environment Artist

Job Description

Lead Environment Artist

Guildford, United Kingdom

We're Criterion, and we love making games!

For more than fifteen years we've entertained millions of players around the world with our award-winning games. Our talented people have expressed their passion for world-class game feel, AAA audiovisual quality and technical innovation in the Burnout & Need for Speed series and and more recently in Battlefield 1, Star Wars X-Wing VR, Starfighter Assault and Arcade for Star Wars Battlefront II and Firestorm for Battlefield V.

We believe that healthy, engaged teams make great games, so we place enormous value on collaboration, fresh ideas, and unique perspectives. We'd love to hear yours! Crunch doesn't help make a better game. We don't do it. For the past three years we are very proud to have been recognised by gamesindustry.biz as one of the best places to work in the UK. Let's talk about how you could be a part of it.

What a Lead Environment Artist does at Criterion:

We are looking for creative, collaborative and passionate people to help us create beautiful, immersive worlds that enhance the game experience. We need your creative and technical skills and understanding of the world to build assets, shaders, and compositions that surround the player with breathtaking vistas.

Reporting to the Environment Director, you will be influencing, mentoring and working closely with other artists, level designers and technical artists. The team operates a highly collaborative and iterative design process where all voices are valued and encouraged, in an environment that fosters growth and autonomy.

You will be using your experience and knowledge to help to shape and improve workflows and guide team members .
Our Environment Team is drawn to people with:
• Experience creating high-quality 3D environments from concept art and photo reference
• You will have experience mentoring and leading others, guiding them to produce their best work.
• Passion for scene dressing, and a great eye for level layout
• Solid knowledge of production techniques including; high-low poly baking, modular asset creation, whiteboxing, physically based rendering and sculpting
• A high degree of experience with 3D content creation and texturing tools such as Maya, 3ds Max, Photoshop and Substance Painter/Designer
• Traditional art skills, appreciation of composition, lighting, colour and detail
• Experience creating open world games and understand tech limitations
• Love of art and games
• Passion for pushing visual quality and production techniques
• Previous AAA game development experience

What's in it for you? Glad you asked!

Naturally, we offer great benefits packages, but more importantly, because we love working with outstanding creators, we maintain a culture that appreciates creative freedom and autonomy.
• Great compensation package, annual bonus scheme and stock plans.
• Benefits including private medical insurance, dental care, pension scheme and life insurance.
• Extras like employee discounts, Rail season ticket loan, free games.
• 25 days holiday (including 3 days company shutdown days between Christmas & New Year)
• Two annual staff parties (Summer and Christmas)
• Casual dress code

We're based in the lovely town of Guildford – 35 minutes from central London.
Our office has an onsite café and gym and is a short walk from the train station and town centre.
• More about our studio: http://criteriongames.com/
• More about our location: https://www.ea.com/careers/careers-overview/guildford

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8eqmd-3-149-229-253-42 in your application.