About the job
Join our talented art team at Sperasoft as an experienced Level Artist, where you'll have the chance to craft immersive and visually stunning game environments. In this creative role, you will closely follow references and adhere to our art direction to design levels that resonate with the game's atmosphere, narrative, and aesthetic. Your keen attention to detail and ability to work autonomously will empower you to create a visually enriched world, enhancing the overall visual quality of our games.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and embellish environments to enhance gameplay readability, facilitate player navigation, and support visual storytelling.
- Ensure visual fidelity and consistency of levels in line with project quality standards and art direction.
- Collect and organize reference materials for environment assets.
- Adhere to studio pipelines, naming conventions, and asset management protocols.
- Construct and adapt modular environment assets to create architectural and environmental settings.
- Create visual breakdowns, reference boards, and asset lists as needed.
- Provide support to the Lead Level Artist in production and artistic tasks.
- Integrate environment assets and textures into the game levels.
- Collaborate with Tech Art and Design teams to optimize levels for performance, focusing on draw calls, LODs, and streaming.
- Set up asset properties related to visuals and performance, including LODs, collisions, and materials.
- Assist in bug fixing and achieving visual polish throughout production and testing phases.
- Evaluate level quality within the engine and implement necessary enhancements.
Qualifications:
- Proficient understanding of architectural and natural environment composition, scale, and structure.
- Knowledge of principles for gameplay readability, player navigation, and visual guidance.
- Experience in optimizing levels for real-time engines (LOD, draw calls, streaming, etc.).
- Strong modeling skills for creating modular environment assets.
- Proficiency in Maya and/or Blender.
- Experience with material blending and vertex painting techniques.
- Expertise in Unreal Engine or comparable real-time engines.
- Familiarity with Substance Painter/Designer.
- Understanding of physically based rendering (PBR) workflows and material standards.
- Exceptional attention to detail and consistency with the project's artistic style.
- A collaborative spirit with the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Insight into material optimization techniques for real-time engines.
- Basic knowledge of lighting principles with experience in adjusting lighting in real-time engines.
- Experience using procedural tools like Houdini is a plus.
- Previous involvement in shipped titles.
Benefits:
- Opportunities for learning and professional development.
- Exceptional perks and benefits.