Experienced 3D Artist - Freelance
About the Company
Digital Shamans are professional video game developers and freelance artists, whose common passion is creating art for video games.
We form an outsourcing studio to help developers make their games faster, while raising artistic, emotional and production value.
We concept design and create fully functional, performance friendly 3d game assets and environments.
Also providing assistance in game development itself, accessing project repositories and work in game engines.
In our core is a small, collaborative, quality and self-development oriented savvy team, which consists of both game dev veterans and bold young artists.
We stand strongly about work-life balance and create a bubble of working environment where respect, appreciation and understanding are essential and decisions are being made in respect of our established values. Where every team member is valued for the perspectives and results brought to the table.
Nothing done well is insignificant.
Freelance 3D Artist
As an experienced freelance 3D Artist, you will be working remotely per assignment from anywhere in the world with no requirement to relocate and with full flexibility in regard of working hours.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Working independently and collaboratively by assisting external and internal teams in creating game assets and potentially also environments of high artistic value.
- Working in a variety of art styles or chosen ones; ranging from realistic ones, through stylised to cartoony.
Possibly ranging in subject from organics to hard-surface.
- Knowing and expressing production needs.
- Taking ownership of assets by reassuring their quality and compatibility throughout production, until final sign off.
Enriching and maintaining overall visual game design, creating interesting and believable assets within technical constraints.
Skills & Requirements:
- Skills representing 3+ years of relevant professional experience as an artist and a portfolio supporting it.
- Production experience and proficiency in working with video game engines.
- Proficiency and experience with game art content creation process. Based either on references or concepts.
- Experience working in both environments; office studio and from home as a freelancer.
- Understanding the importance of communication and collaborative problem-solving skills.
- Growth mindset. Critical and independent thinking.
- High level of creativity and independence with little oversight.
- Being a self driven and assertive individual with developed good tasks and time management skills & practices.
- Proven ability to prioritise and execute ideas within a time schedule and other production requirements.
- Successfully handling undertaken scope of work and responsibilities, while working with a bigger picture in mind.
- Strong foundation of art skills.
Understanding of composition, form, colour and light in relation to crafting environments.
Understanding what makes an environment and its elements interesting, believable and appealing.
Great sense of spatial relations, structural logic, colours, composition, purpose, form and styles.
- Ability to provide clear and consistent feedback and critique based on art direction and any technical considerations.
- Experience and strong understanding of current generation production pipelines and workflows.
- Strong understanding of modular asset creation workflows.
- Basic understanding of game setting and level design requirements in regard to asset creation.
Additional Information:
Super friendly small working environment of passionate creative people who have a growth mindset and approach others through understanding.
Many more opportunities are available if you have the passion and experience!
We encourage and support continuous professional and personal development, around which our working culture is revolving.
Every freelance artist may become a Digital Shamans' core team member and as such have an opportunity for fixed-term contract or employment if having UK residency.
How to Apply?
Please apply by sending your application including Portfolio, CV/LinkedIn on the address: jobs@digitalshamans.co.uk
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