BLACKMILL GAMES - Montauban - Focus Entertainment

Description

BLACKMILL GAMES – Environment Artist (F/H/NB)

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BlackMill Games is looking for an experienced (mid‑senior) Environment Artist with a passion for history to work on our series of WW1‑themed multiplayer first‑person shooters. The successful candidate will bridge the gap between level art, design, and 3D/pro artist teams.

Responsibilities

• Create immersive environments: design and develop expansive maps, set dressing of POIs.
• Prototyping and content planning: collaborate with level design to prototype concepts, produce optimized modular sets, plan level content, guard against overscoping, estimate timelines.
• Maintain quality standards: ensure environments meet technical and quality standards, check optimisation, uphold naming conventions and source asset storage.
• Cross‑team collaboration: work with the Art Director, level designers, and 3D/Prop artists to integrate assets seamlessly.
• Innovation & knowledge sharing: contribute to tool development and workflow optimisations, document workflows for internal sharing.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Artistic skills
  • Interpreting reference images or concept art with fidelity.
  • Sense of scale and composition.
  • Keen eye for color and materials.
• 3D skills
  • Creating accurate blockout models.
  • Converting blockouts into modular sets.
  • High‑to‑low poly workflow.
  • UVing, baking and texturing.
  • Working with trim sheets.
  • High‑quality architecture and organic model creation.
• Game‑engine experience
  • Importing and setting up assets in the engine.
  • Using tools for in‑engine set dressing.
  • Landscape tools.
• Remote work experience
  • Self‑motivated and collaborative mindset.

Bonus Skills / Experience

• Affinity for World War One.
• Passionate gamer.
• Experience with SVN.
• Unity 6 HDRP pipeline – lighting, shaders, artistic tools.
• Sculpting.
• Material creation.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior.

Employment Type

Full‑time.

Job Function

Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology.