Middleweight 3D Artist

Job Title: Mid level 3D Artist

Company: Hidden Creative
Location: Manchester, UK (hybrid - onsite and remote)
Term: Full time

Hidden Creative is seeking a talented and experienced Middleweight 3D artist that is capable of creating stunning high-quality hard surface high poly/low poly modelling. We are looking for someone with an eye for detail and a passion for creative problem solving.

This is an exciting role within a small team of specialist and highly motivated 3D artists working with augmented reality, virtual reality and other immersive technologies. As a mid level member of the team you will have the opportunity to expand your knowledge in a huge range of technologies while creating highly acclaimed 3D for interactive experiences and videos.

You will join at an incredibly exciting and pivotal point in our journey, and will receive a clear personal development plan to accelerate and develop your career in line with our ambitious goals.

Here at Hidden our people are the reason for our success. Sharp technical and creative minds are the driving force behind our growing business, so our top priority is to nurture a working environment where talent flourishes.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Modelling from image reference and CAD data
• Lighting and rendering, particularly in Unity
• Creating tileable and mapped textures
• Rendering (Vray)
• Gathering reference for asset creation
• UV unwrapping for texture and baked UV sets
• Work to schedules to deliver work to agreed timelines

Key Candidate Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years experience working in 3D art in a business environment
• Able to quickly prototype from rough sketches
• Strong communication skills
• Solid work ethic and a positive attitude in the face of challenging situations
• Strong time management and organisation skills
• Proficient with 3D art creation tools such as Maya
• Knowledge of the PBR workflow and texturing tools such as Substance Painter
• Proficient with 2D software such as Photoshop
• Experience working with game engines such as Unity and Unreal
• Knowledge of optimisation processes and rendering techniques
• Accomplished with rendering tools and fundamentals, (V-Ray)
• Generate and modify models based on engineering and industrial design specs
• Modelling high resolution geometry for surface transfer
• Positive attitude towards learning new skills and techniques

Bonus

• Rigging for animation
• Animation
• Unreal Experience
• Understanding of character creation processes and animation fundamentals
• It would be advantageous to have skills in concept drawing, storyboarding
• Experience with AR / VR / MR
• Knowledge of other 3D visualisation software such as Cinema4D / After Effects

What we offer

• An open mind to new ideas and new methodologies.
• A top-notch portfolio and full pipeline of interesting and exciting projects.
• A company in the immersive space that is growing rapidly and is looking for the best of the best.
• A friendly, focused and supportive team of high level professionals

We offer an environment to thrive and grow whilst developing a powerful mix of top quality creative and technical skills to generate highly effective immersive and digital experiences for some of the largest companies in the world.

Benefits

You will receive 24 days of annual leave along with a day off for your birthday and all UK bank holidays. We run a company pension scheme and we invest in a dedicated training budget to accelerate your career progression in the direction you want.

We are committed to flexible working and have adopted a hybrid working system enabling you to work remotely as well as in our Manchester City Centre office when required.

We are a close knit team, with a deep level of appreciation for each other s needs and requirements. We invest time and resources into our team with their personal development, as well as celebrating our successes and team spirit. We recognise the hard work that goes into the high quality projects we produce and regularly reward our staff to show our appreciation.