Lead Prop Artist
2 weeks ago
Auroch Digital is part of the Sumo Group Ltd. They are a game development studio based in Bristol, UK and founded in 2010. The studio works on original titles, long-term partnerships, and work-for-hire projects such as porting. We specialise in strategy, retro and digital tabletop games, working with the likes of Games Workshop and Ndemic Creations. Auroch also has an interest in making games that relate to and deal with real-world issues.
Auroch Digital's titles include retro boomer shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, the authentic beer brewing simulator Brewmaster, action-strategy hybrid Dark Future: Blood Red States, the console versions of fishy theme park management game Megaquarium and cute robot city builder The Colonists, and Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life which is the sequel to Mars Horizon which was made in collaboration with the European Space Agency. The studio is currently working on several titles, both original IPs and ports.
**Lead Prop Artist**
Auroch Digital is looking for a full-time, permanent Lead Prop Artist.
- As Lead Prop Artist, you will be managing a small team of 4-6 prop artists in creating stylized, hand-painted props for Auroch’s unannounced AAA outsourcing project.
This is a varied role, with a strong focus on leadership. You will primarily mentor your team of prop artists, guiding them through creative and technical challenges and helping them achieve artistic growth and career goals. From time to time, you will create benchmark work that demonstrates the art direction goals and help push final art over the finish line in time for content lock.
- You will also be helping the project’s Associate Art Director and Producers in the day-to-day running of the team. This includes attending client feedback and production meetings, planning schedules and workflows, and anticipating project risks and challenges well in advance so the team can put contingencies in place. Your experience as a Prop Artist will be key to smooth art production pipeline for the entire team.
**What we're looking for**:
- A strong interest in, or enthusiasm for management styles that prioritizes the growth and well-being of your team.
- A portfolio demonstrating appealing, stylized prop art.
- Ability to self-direct and meet quality and production goals.
- Previous experience integrating and testing art for gameplay requirements in a game engine such as Unreal Engine, Unity, or in-house engine.
- Ability to represent the prop team professionally and effectively to clients in external feedback and production meetings.
- Proactively identify, communicate, and minimize project risks and challenges as related to the project’s prop art pipeline.
- Previous experience as a Senior, or equivalent experience on a commercially released videogame project.
**Nice to have**:
- Experience creating materials using Unreal’s Material Editor or similar system.
**Work benefits**:
- We don’t agree with using crunch (here's our take on it)
- We won’t get in the way of you working on your own indie dev projects in your own time
- Remote, office based or hybrid are all totally fine working options
- 27 days holiday total (including your Birthday off) which increases for long term service
- The option to take three months unpaid sabbatical leave after three years of service
- Competitive salary
- Bonus scheme
- Flexible working
- Pensions contribution
- Dental cover
- Life insurance
- Income protection
- A pot of money to spend in Uchoose on extra benefits like health insurance, adding family members etc.
- Ongoing support for training and career development, including 5 learning days a year, 1 of which can be
used for volunteering
**Application Information**:
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