About Funsolve

Our mission is to build superb gaming experiences that are fun, rewarding and memorable.  Making great games requires strong teams, good leadership and the best environment to create, we’re building a world class development team and would like to speak with anyone that shares our vision.

FS03 / Closing Date for Applications Mar 31st 2018

We’re looking for an experienced and dedicated artist to lead a team in creating our first AAA console title.

Roles & Duties

• Reporting to the Game Director and coordinate with studio leads on art objectives.
• Lead the art team in producing art assets and elements for the game.
• Manage the pipeline from brief through concept art, production and development.
• Identify and recruit for art roles in unison with studio budgets and objectives.
• Develop and maintain art asset pipelines, tools, workflows and their related documentation.
• Provide training and coaching for artists in various tools and processes.
• Facilitate communication between art, design, code and production.

Skills & Expertise

• Excellent working knowledge of game art creation both 3D and 2D
• Able to create or commission art concepts and style guides for team to follow
• Proficient in either 3dsMax or Maya, other packages an advantage.
• Ability in the practical application of lighting theory and material shading in games.
• An awareness of the differences between mobile and console development and how best to achieve good results on both.
• Ability to innovate within the development team.
• Strong modelling, animation, or texturing skills.
• Traditional art skills.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to critique and provide constructive feedback.
• Able to work with a team across multiple disciplines.
• Excellent oral and written communications.
• Able to sympathetically identify potential problems and create practical solutions.
• Understand other departments needs and requirements suggest improvements, etc….

AGENCIES NOTE: We are currently not accepting applications from agencies for this role. Only direct applications will be engaged with.