For our upcoming debut title we are looking for a new core team member defining our art pipelines and being the engine glue!

Core Responsibilities:

• Work with Leads to develop an efficient and productive art asset pipeline with minimal points of failure
• Work with Leads to define upkeep naming conventions and folder structures
• Support Lead Artist developing proficient Blender, material and texturing workflows for fast engine integration
• Support Lead Arist with character rigging, texture painting, character animation and environment art
• Create beautiful visual effects and 3D and 2D shaders
• Build tool scripts and other editor productivity tools for artists and dev team
• Help building responsive UI supporting multiple platforms
• Work with Art Direction to achieve final look and feel
• Help Art and Marketing creating marketing material, articles and video clips.

Qualifications:

You have

• 2+ years of experience working specifically with Godot
• an online portfolio showcasing games you worked on and art you created
• highly proficient Blender skills and are very comfortable with GDScript and the Godot Shader Language
• experience with the full 3D character creation pipeline from start to finish: modeling > texturing > rigging > animation > importing and writing the custom character controller script, including animation blending and animation retargeting
• extensive knowledge about platform limitations and platform specific workflows in Godot as well as engine optimizations
• a passion to solve technical as well as artistic challenges
• the stamina and determination to dill down on bugs and issues even after all options seem exhausted, find workarounds
• an interest in working on action oriented top down multiplayer games
• the ability and desire to communicate both technical as well as artistic issues and personal opinions respectfully, freely and clearly
• a positive collaborative mindset

Bonus if

• 4+ years of experience working specifically with Godot
• experience working with other engines
• experience with Godot 4 high level multiplayer API
• able to read/write C++
• committed Godot engine PRs, comfortable traversing the engine source code
• created and maintain publicly available FOSS plugins or shaders for Godot
• experience in the AA+ games industry
• very strong VFX or animation skills
• released games (team or solo)

What we offer:

• A highly motivated, extremely passionate team of professionals with industry experience and a realistic outlook
• flexible long term contract we can formulate around your individual needs
• no gambling mechanics, no dark patterns, no pay to win, no asset flips, no licensed-IP cheap knock offs
• opportunity to shape a young growing game company and an exciting, completely new and unique IP
• flat hierarchy and high autonomy
• competitive industry salary

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If that's you, we would love to hear from you!

Send us a mail at jobs@strandedbeast.com or fill out the form below. Please include links to your portfolio and projects you worked on.