People Can Fly is hiring a
Senior Environment Artist

Summary

The job is for an Art Director at People Can Fly, a leading independent AAA games developer. The role involves maintaining artistic direction, creating levels in Unreal Engine, providing feedback, collaborating with teams, and meeting deadlines.

Requirements

• 5+ years in AAA console/PC game development including 3+ year in UE
• Strong Portfolio showcasing AAA quality level art done in engine (Unreal, Unity or Proprietary Engine)
• Artistically interpret concepts or creatively push beyond an initial ideation
• A solid understanding of traditional art skills along with foundational design competencies (shape, form, texture, value and color)
• Advanced knowledge of current level art workflows and practices
• Full understanding of Modular Workflows
• Skilled at balancing art quality and performance in the game engine
• Demonstration of narrative set dressing
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new styles, techniques and workflows with basic guidance
• Ability to collaborate with department leads, and different departments to solve artistic and technical challenges
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

Responsibilities

• Maintain artistic direction and quality
• Creating world geometry and composition for levels in Unreal Engine
• Effectively producing playable levels based on Art directors vision and Level design needs with lead cooperation
• Redesigning existing assets to new forms
• Blocking out modules and levels, creating first materials
• Produce work within specifications and maintain workflow pipelines within given deadlines
• Bug Fixing and describing R&D case studies in the knowledge base
• Participate in reviews, adapt to, and implement feedback from leads and peers in a professional manner
• Provide feedback and improvement to visual quality
• Knowledge sharing
• Collaborate in R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows
• Occasionally support leads and HR collaboration in recruitment efforts
• Occasionally support new hires onboarding process

Preferred Qualifications

• Traditional art skills along with core graphic design competencies (composition and layout, typography, color and light)
• Environment modeling skills
• Visual scripting skills
• Procedural Generation tools
• Zbrush Experience
• Houdini Experience

Benefits

• Private medical healthcare (Vitality) and BUPA dental insurance for PCF's employees and their families
• Gympass for employees and family members
• Online Polish and English language classes
• Access to the pension scheme
• Flexible working hours
• Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions included in the plan for members and their dependents
• Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment
• Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do
• Private medical healthcare including dental treatment for PCF members and their families (Signal Iduna)
• MultiSport card for you and your family members or friends
• Free library with a wide range of games and books you have unlimited access to
• In-company Polish and English language classes
• Fresh fruit, snacks, and beverages for everyone in the office