Snobal is seeking an experienced Lead Artist to help develop our 3D virtual learning platform using Unity 3D game engine. The role involves collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team, including instruction designer, other artists and developers to create high quality virtual learning experiences, primarily for deployment to Web and also Head Mounted Displays such as Rift, Vive, Gear.
Here’s a short- though not exhaustive list – of some of the areas you’ll be responsible for:
The role
You will:
- Work with the team to develop and story-board concepts from existing course materials or new courses from scratch
- Asset creation – ‘realist’ 3D models as well as textures and 2D UI
- Character rigging / animations
- Lighting and particle effects useful
- Optimisation and efficient workflow
- Development/Coding skills a bonus
- Great communication skills
- Actively contribute to sprints and work in progress meetings
- Developing clever solutions for complex projects
- Effectively communicating with an multidisciplinary team
- Experience with Virtual Reality environments (desirable)
- Experience with publishing to WebGL
- Experience optimising assets and libraries
- Unity Engine experience
- Leading the art development and managing other creative artists in the process
- At least 2 years professional game design experience or equivalent school/independent project experience.
Qualities we expect:
- Consistently evaluates technical efficiency and makes changes as necessary
- Entrepreneurial
- Support team where and when necessary with a hands on approach
- Ability to pick up legacy content where applicable and maintain development momentum
- Identify competitive advantages and technological trends for the benefit of a company
- Actively assisting in driving forward a new development team and assist in recruiting where necessary
We love freelancers, contractors and micro-businesses. If you’re one of these then don’t be shy about getting in touch.
We are initially looking for contract commitment possibly moving to ongoing soon after.You will need to be based in Melbourne, Australia and will work largely from our offices at The Dream Factory in Footscray.
Next Steps
Deadline for application: COB Friday 2 September 2016
Submit your application along with a link to your LinkedIn profile, GitHub profile, Twitter profile, website / blog or project links of your work. In fact, an anything else that shows us how awesome you are!
Email info[at]snobal[dot]io. with the role title in subject heading.