Lead Artist

2 weeks ago

Oxford, United Kingdom Rebellion Full time

**We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION**

For 30 years we’ve been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool, and Wakefield. Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them. So, if you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support **hybrid/flexible** working options.

**We are currently searching for a Lead Artist to join our ambitious Art team who are working on an unannounced, co-op strategy shooter.**

Working alongside the Art Director, you will play a pivotal role in collaborating with discipline leads to set quality standards for the game, using in-depth knowledge of techniques and technical approaches.

**Responsibilities**
- Lead the Art team to ensure objectives are met.
- Collaborate with the Code, Design and Art teams to identify, research and help implement innovative ideas and technical approaches needed for the project.
- Establish a work environment full of innovation, creativity and vigour.
- Help define best practices, workflows and pipelines as well as develop and improve existing processes.
- Inspire, mentor and train artists to ensure solid working foundations and career development.

**Requirements**:

- Experience managing artists remotely or in a hybrid working environment.
- Strong leadership experience, shipping 3D game titles on multiple platforms.
- Good knowledge of all art pipelines (Characters, Environments, Animation, VFX, Shaders & Materials, Lighting, UI, Rendering, and Performance).
- Have a creative eye and aesthetic judgment to help drive and critique the visual quality.
- Excellent understanding of game development process from concept and pre-production, through production, to optimisation and final delivery.
- Strong technical understanding of common and proprietary tools and technology used for content creation.
- Diligence with individual and team tasks to help move the team forward.
- Solid knowledge of industry standard task tracking software such as Jira and Excel.

**Benefits**

**We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including**:

- 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years - one day each year until you reach 31 days)
- Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
- Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
- Enhanced Family Leave
- Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
- Plus loads moreincluding a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events

**About Us**

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

**Find out more about us here**

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

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