Technical Artist – RuneScape: Dragonwilds
Jagex
Environment Artist
World Makers
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Design, build, and polish high-quality 3D environments that support gameplay, readability, and immersion in a competitive online multiplayer setting.
- Develop modular environment assets optimized for performance and scalability in Unreal Engine 5.
- Collaborate closely with design, technical art, and engineering teams to ensure environments align with gameplay needs, visual targets, and performance goals.
- Establish and maintain efficient world-building workflows, ensuring consistency and technical excellence.
- Contribute to the creative direction by developing and iterating on environment style, composition, and atmosphere.
- Stay current with evolving techniques in real-time environment art, lighting, and materials, and apply them to push the quality of our game worlds.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as an Environment Artist in the video game industry, with a strong portfolio or shipped titles.
- Strong proficiency with industry-standard tools such as Blender, Substance Painter/Designer, and Photoshop.
- Proven expertise in Unreal Engine 5, including landscape tools, material editing, lighting, and level optimization.
- Highly self-motivated, with the ability to take initiative, manage time effectively, and drive tasks to completion with minimal supervision.
- Deep understanding of modular environment creation, scene composition, and real-time performance considerations.
- Proven experience building real-world structures recreated at true-to-life scale, optimized for gameplay and visual fidelity.
- A strong eye for composition, scale, and visual storytelling through environment design.
- Experience collaborating across disciplines to achieve both artistic and technical goals.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to both give and receive feedback constructively.
- Passion for building immersive, visually cohesive worlds for online multiplayer experiences.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
3D environment designmodular environment creationscene compositionreal-time performance optimizationlighting techniquesmaterial editinglevel optimizationvisual storytellinggameplay optimizationenvironment asset development
Soft skills
self-motivatedtime managementinitiativecollaborationcommunicationfeedbackcreativityattention to detailproblem-solvingadaptability