Senior Character Artist – Unannounced Game

Yelzkizi; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

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Job Description

Are you a proven Senior Character Artist that wants to have a significant impact on brand new game with a popular IP?

As a Senior Character Artist you’ll be working in a small, fast and agile team whilst collaborating closely with Concept Artist, Animators and outsource partners. You’ll strive to deliver character work to a high standard, make suggestions and improvements to current processes and take ownership of a variety of art tasks.

This role suits you if you’re looking to work on a unique art style and you excel when given creative freedom.

What you’ll be doing:

• Consistently deliver character work to a very high standard
• Create and develop game character assets from inception to final review
• Own and deliver large and complex areas of character art
• Knowledge sharing with others by freely exchanging skills through training and mentoring

What we’re looking for:

• Professional knowledge of relevant software and pipelines for creating character art assets
• Extensive hands-on Game Engine and character art pipelines experience
• A willingness and ability to learn, accept and act on constructive feedback
• Strong communication skills: an ability to communicate ideas and concepts in a visual manner
• Good understanding and experience of the entire game production cycle and associated issues
• Professional knowledge of art fundamentals and anatomy

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here.

About Jagex:

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.

How to Apply

Apply via: https://apply.workable.com/j/545806CB01