Crytek looks for Senior Texture Artist - Full Time Job

[MichaelEndres]

Crytek, the maker of “Far Cry” is looking for an experienced Senior Texture Artist, who can provide photorealistic textures for our next-generation games.
PREREQUISITIES:

• Should have either a degree or at least 4 years professional production experience in lieu of.
• Is a leader/role model (within their craft) on a team level (does not necessarily mean ?Lead Artist? or management role)
  Demonstrated History of:
• Actively supporting Art Direction
• Remaining faithful to projects' Art Direction.
  All Texture Artist Candidates must have a portfolio that demonstrates:
• A strong artistic background, with numerous examples of drawings
• Strong ability to create extremely detailed photorealistic high-res textures produced for games / CGI production use, for technical objects like vehicles, weapons and organic objects like human characters and environment objects
• Experience with the latest computer real time technologies (normal mapping, shaders)
• Strong ability to follow Art Direction guidelines
• If coming from outside the game industry (film), new hires will be expected to learn/understand how game-play and real time issues can affect the production of textures; they will be expected to develop techniques to compensate for such limitations

REQUIREMENTS:

• Above with at least 2-4 yrs. Cinematic/games production experience, 1-2 yrs. Feature film a big plus.
• Good knowledge how normal, diffuse, specular, gloss and displacement maps should be created and utilized to create photorealistic looking game assets.
• Excellent knowledge in Adobe Photoshop/Painter
• Consistently demonstrates an excellent sense for detail and colour
• Must be able to adapt to new technologies
• Good English communication skills
• Relocation to Coburg, Germany required

RESPONSIBILITIES:
With nominal direction, is responsible for:

• Creating photorealistic textures for Characters, all kind of props, environments, weapons, vehicles and special effects textures for next generation games
• Works together with R&D Department in order to develop new shading technologies

PROFESSIONAL:

• Completes all work in a timely basis
• Remains focused, motivated and effective on all tasks through completion
• Demonstrates a desire to learn and grow professionally

How to apply?
Please send an email with a CV , sample work and/or link to portfolio to artjobs@crytek.de
Subject: Texture Artist
Submissions without samples or without links to samples will not be reviewed.

General Information
We are working on a next generation action title for PC and next generation consoles.
Crytek is located in Bavaria, Germany.
For more information about the company please visit
www.crytek.de