Senior Material Artist (Contract)

We’re ArenaNet. We make the games we want to play and infuse them with innovation, hand-crafted detail, and creative passion. As developer and publisher of the award-winning Guild Wars game series, we’re proud to share our passion for the online worlds we’ve created with over 11 million players worldwide.

We are looking for a Contract Senior Material Artist join our team. This is a 6 month contract position. 

As Senior Material Artist, you will…

• Play a critical role in defining the look and feel of our materials.
• Create high quality textures and materials.
• Oversee the development of a material library.
• Support artists in authoring and application of materials.
• Collaborate with Tech and Art in the design and implementation of material pipeline.

What This Role Requires

• Professional game industry experience as a Material Artist or Environment Artist with knowledge of material pipelines.
• Portfolio of work demonstrating artistic and technical skills with a range of realistic and stylized materials.
• Expertise in Substance Designer and Painter as well as other industry-standard material authoring software.
• Solid understand of PBR rendering and material/light interaction.
• Excellent collaboration and communications skills.

Nice To Have

• Experience with Unreal 4/5.
• Familiarity with procedural content generation
• Familiarity with working with photogrammetry.
• Ability to work in multiple art styles.
• Familiarity with working with traditional media.