Senior Environment Artist

Kinetic Games • Southampton, England, United Kingdom • 14h ago

About Kinetic Games

We’re an independent games studio best known for creating Phasmophobia, enjoyed by millions of players worldwide. Our team is passionate, creative, and collaborative and we’re looking for someone equally enthusiastic about games to join our growing team.

We’re a small, friendly team that values creativity, openness, and personal growth. Whether you’re helping various departments or talking about your favourite horror game, you’ll be part of a supportive environment where passion and curiosity are celebrated. You’ll be joining a small but ambitious team where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your development truly matters.

About the role:

As a Senior Environment Artist, you will play a crucial role in the creation of the environments our players explore from conceptualization to implementation. You will be a key member of our art team, working closely with other artists to deliver outstanding results for our games. Your expertise in creating compelling environments will be a valued part of our team, where you will be instrumental in creating and refining visual elements. This role is hybrid at our offices in Southampton.

Applicants please note: We will commence evaluating applications for this role starting early January so please be aware of the delay in processing in this instance

Your responsibilities will include:

Create high quality and performance efficient assets for levels, working closely with other artists and designers.
Collaborate with others to ensure consistency across environments.
Create new Substance assets, textures, materials, and 3D props — contributing to both hero assets and modular environment sets as required.
Use the DCC tools of your choice — we want you working with the software you’re most comfortable with to deliver your best modelling work.
Take ownership of visual aspects of environments and related assets throughout the process.
Providing regular updates, participating in creative discourse and proving advice to more junior artists as required.
Contribute to a constant approach of refinement and improvement across the art department.

Requirements:

Solid experience of working with Unity engine.
Solid experience working with Substance Designer and Substance Painter
Strong interpersonal skills
Strong collaborator with a team mindset
A solid knowledge of, and commitment to keeping up to date with industry trends and new technologies
Experienced with composition from purpose and structure through spatial relationships, colour, form and style.
Excellent understanding of modular and hero asset creation and workflows
Experience of using JIRA or similar
Experience using version control such as Git, Perforce or Plastic
Minimum of 5 years' experience within the games industry with at least 1 shipped title

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