Our client is a leading games studio located in Vienna, Austria. They are looking for a skilled Lead Animator to join their passionate team. This role is offered on-site alongside an excellent relocation package, competitive salary and benefits. 

What you will be doing:

·Develop creative animations and character pipelines.

·Collaborating effectively with other animators on key projects.

·Mentor and aid the growth of junior team member by providing guidance, feedback and support.

·Set the artistic vision and direction for the animation team in cohesion with the creative goal.

·Review animations produced by the team and provide healthy, constructive feedback. 

Who you are:

·Experience working in an Senior/Lead Animator role on PC/Console games. 

·Great verbal and written communication skills.

·Proficient knowledge of Maya and Unreal Engine. 

·You are able to showcase a skilled portfolio highlighting your previous work. 

·You have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.

Benefits:

·25+ days holiday, flexible working, competitive salary, relocation support, friendly working environment and many more. 

Application:

To apply please forward your CVs to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting the reference number 2902.

Our client is a popular games development studio located in London, England. They are looking for a talented Technical Artist experienced with C# to join their team working on-site.

What you will be doing:

· Monitor the technical processes for all art areas, from the initial specifications to final in-game implementation.

· Assist the Art, Engineering, and Design teams by providing technical support to resolve any difficulties.

· Be prepared to take on responsibilities outside of your area of expertise in accordance with the requirements of the studio.

· Be proactive in finding ways to implement new technologies and techniques to improve the game.

· Develop straightforward documentation of toolsets and workflows that the team can rely on.

Who you are:

· 5+ years in the games industry and experienced with C#, HLSL shader creation and Unity3D.

· Have had experience working on a mobile title that has been published, as a technical artist.

· Highly proficient in areas such as rendering, lighting and texturing.

· Great understanding on mobile platform rendering technology.

· You will be able to solve complex problems with technical solutions.

Benefits:

· Competitive salary, life insurance, pension scheme, healthcare cash plan, private medical care, onsite chef, fitness classes and many more.

Application:

To apply please forward your CVs to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting the reference number 2148.

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We are working with an exciting game studio who is looking to appoint an talented Lighting Artist to join their dynamic studio and work on their latest next-gen projects, pushing the boundaries in UE4 and UE5. This role is based at their studios based in the SE of England or the Netherlands.

What will you be doing:

• Work with the Lighting Lead, Art Director/Creative Director to create a distinctive look that supports gameplay
• Help create AAA quality lighting for engaging game experiences
• Working across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver world class and innovative techniques
• Optimise lighting content for memory and performance while retaining visual quality
• Provide feedback and advice to team members of the project

Who you are:

• Experience in a Lighting Artist or similar
• An impressive portfolio showcasing your skills
• Experience creating real-time dynamic and baked lighting, grading and other post fx
• Unreal 4 game engine or similar
• 3DS Max or Maya, Photoshop
• Working knowledge of art creation workflow, asset exporting, and data driven pipelines
• Experience in real time lighting

An added bonus:

• Working with blueprints in UE4
• Experience in material/shader work and scripting
• Experience in colour grading/post-process effects

Benefits:

• Competitive salary with great benefits
• Flexible hybrid working offered
• Excellent holiday benefits
• Friendly and supportive work environment

Application:

Please forward your updated PDF or Word CV along with your latest URL portfolio/showreel links to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting reference 2562.

Big Planet is an equal opps recruitment agency, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.

Our client is a well-established games studio based in Southern Germany, who are now looking for an experienced Lead VFX Artist to join their team and work on their latest project. This role is offered onsite with an excellent relocation package.

What you will be doing:

• Create Visual effects using Unreal 5 and a variety of technical approaches
• Create high-quality VFX assets (meshes, textures, flow maps, image sequences, vertex animations, etc.)
• Work with the VFX director, designs and programmers to ensure that VFX enhances the overall experience of the game
• Work on further improvements and customization of the studios existing effects toolset
• Plan and create VFX task lists, help assign tasks and monitor them until approved
• Maintain and feed the VFX pipeline with outsourcing companies
• Stay up to date with industry trends and techniques for VFX in games

Who you are:

• 5+ years of industry experience as a VFX artist
• Experience with Unreal 5 (Niagara, Blueprints, etc.)
• An impressive portfolio showcasing your VFX work in games  
• Experience with Realtime VFX, and capable of asset creation (meshes, textures flow maps, image sequences, vertex animation etc)
• Great English written and verbal communication skills

Benefits:

• Competitive salary with flexible working hours
• Excellent benefits package including health insurance
• Great work-life balance
• Relocation support provided
• Good additional benefits e.g., language classes and fitness studio

Application

To apply please forward your CV to cvs@big-planet.biz quoting the reference 2852.

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We are working with a mobile and casual games studio based in Berlin who is looking for a highly skilled and creative UI Artist, who will be working closely with game design and development teams, with a focus to improve the customer experience.   

 What will you be doing?

• Liaise and collaborate with art, developer, game design and UX teams
• Create fun user interfaces for their existing and new social and mobile games
• Refine the visual UI style – graphics,animations  
• Document in style guide

Who you are

• A formal qualification and relevant video games experience – casual or mobile games experience
• An impressive portfolio showcasing your skillset
• A minimum of 2 years as a UI Artist - understanding of fundamental design principles, usability, flows, and UI design
• Unity experience
• Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator
• Source control software – Git, SVN or similar

An added bonus if you have the following:  

• Animation experience
• Digital art creation

Application

Please forward your updated PDF or Word CV along with your latest URL portfolio/showreel links to 

cvs@big-planet.biz quotingreference 2542.

We are an equal opps recruitment agency, value diversity and do not discriminate. We are GDPR compliant.