Environment Lead

Are you an exceptional 3D Environment and Set Dressing artist with a natural talent for leadership and a passion for bringing immersive worlds to life At 3Doubles we are looking for a creative highly organized and inspiring Lead Environment Artist. You will be the technical and artistic reference for our environment team guiding artists to ensure our sets props and complex 3D environments achieve the highest standards of visual storytelling and pipeline efficiency. If you are a master of composition optimization and environmental narrative a natural mentor and thrive in a collaborative high-energy environment we want to meet you!

Job Details

Work Mode: On-site
Location: Tenerife Spain
Contract Type: Full-time
Start Date: To be agreed upon

Why 3Doubles

• Work-Life Balance: Intensive morning shift (07:30 AM 03:00 PM). Youll have your afternoons free to enjoy the island sun.
• Team Culture: Here you arent just a number; your voice is heard and your ideas truly matter.
• Creative Environment: A creative innovative and collaborative studio culture.
• Growth: A leadership role in high-level professional animation

What You Will Do

• Act as the technical and artistic reference for the team bridging the macro vision of the Environment Supervisor with daily execution.
• Provide ongoing guidance and advice to environment and setdress artists ensuring that complex environments meet quality standards scale and performance requirements.
• Assign tasks strategically based on artist strengths track team progress and maintain production tracking tools (Jira ShotGrid Confluence).
• Step in to support the Environment Supervisor maintain the projects artistic direction and lead the department in their absence.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical or creative bottlenecks to maintain pipeline flow.
• Establish and refine department workflows style guides and optimization protocols.
• Collaborate closely with downstream departments (Layout Animation LookDev Lighting) to ensure seamless asset integration.

What We Are Looking For

• 45 years of experience as a Set Dressing and Environment Artist in 3D animation or VFX with proven experience in a Senior or leadership role (Lead Mentor Technical Lead).
• Outstanding portfolio showcasing technical and artistic mastery in building dressing and optimizing complex 3D worlds.
• Advanced expertise in Houdini Maya Substance Painter/Designer rendering engines and resource management. With a special focus on USD and Solaris.
• Deep understanding of visual composition environmental storytelling scale lighting and color to translate 2D concepts into functional 3D environments.
• Strong leadership profile: empathetic highly organized decisive proactive dynamic and resilient under pressure with a growth mindset.
• Strong understanding of downstream pipeline stages.
• Advanced English is required (additional languages are a plus).