Character Artist - Old School Runescape
Jagex Limited, United Kingdom

Are you an experienced Character Artist who wants to express their creativity and create characters on one of the industry’s largest and most successful MMOs?

As a Character Artist on Old School RuneScape, you’ll create a variety of character assets including awesome armour sets, oversized ogre sumo suits, fantastical mechanical inventions and weapons and so much more!

This is a hugely creative role within our art team and one that has an immensely positive impact for the communities of players we have all over the world as they get to admire your work and use it and bring these beloved characters to life in-game!

What you’ll be doing:

• Create, develop, and refine high quality 3D character assets ranging across creatures, humans and weapons.
• Work closely with Concept Artists and Animators to ensure models are designed and optimized to meet the style for PC and Mobile platforms.
• Work closely with Content Developers to ensure assets are correctly implemented in the game engine.
• Work with Tools Developers to troubleshoot and improve existing in-house tools
• Provide feedback to artists in the team in group reviews and more junior members of the team in day-to-day production
• Ensure game ready assets conform to the house style and are maintained through all projects within your own and colleagues work, via feedback.
• Supporting Designers, Animators and QA to release high quality assets whilst being mindful of our release schedule.
• Collaborating with the rest of the team to aid with future art asset and project ideas.
• Working closely with the rest of the Art manager and Concept Artists to maintain and develop the games visual style.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience as a 3D character artist in the games industry.
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates your skills in the creation of character asset work.
• Thorough knowledge of end-to-end character workflows.
• Comfortable participating in and contributing to group review and critique sessions.
• Effective time management, task prioritization.
• Ability to work to deadlines with accurate work planning skills.
• Clear, professional interaction; communicate clearly, and concisely to team, peers, and management.
• Enthusiastic about working on retro games and MMOs.

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks amp; Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
• 75 Monthly Energy Allowance (Paid on top of your salary)
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme amp; onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays amp; the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together with each other and with us inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.

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