Jobs

Key Responsibilities

• Layout & Scattering: Author large-scale city layouts and highly optimized scattering systems within Houdini, ensuring thousands of assets are duplicated in a clean, organized, and performant manner.
• Procedural & Hero Asset Development: Develop scalable procedural building/shading assets (HDAs) while maintaining the flexibility to hand-craft bespoke, detailed architectural assets.
• USD Pipeline Integration: Manage and organize complex USD asset hierarchies, utilizing layer opinions, variants, and references effectively within a team environment.
• Generalist Collaboration: Help out with core asset creation tasks - including asset modification, basic modeling, and texturing.
• Optimization & Practicality: Keep environments lean, clean, and easy to unpick. 

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Industry Experience: 5+ years of experience as an Environment Artist or Generalist on high-end VFX, feature animation, or AAA game cinematics.
• Software Mastery: Advanced production knowledge of SideFX Houdini.
• Traditional Art Fundamentals: Solid, practical skills in poly modeling, UV unwrapping, and shading/texturing.
• Artistic Eye: A strong sense of architectural scale, real-world proportion, composition, and lighting.
• Team-First Mindset: A proactive, collaborative attitude with a genuine willingness to jump into any part of the environment asset pipeline to help the team meet deadlines.

Nice-to-Haves

• Basic knowledge of Autodesk Maya (to easily interface with traditional asset pipelines).
• Working knowledge of Gaffer for lookdev and lighting
• Experience with texturing/shading suites like Adobe Substance 3D or Mari.
• Basic knowledge of Python or VEX for pipeline optimization.

The job is open to fully remote candidates, though you must be based in Europe.

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You need a valid working permit of the EU/EEA with a valid EU/EEA passport.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer work visas at this time.