Description

Are you a versatile 3D and 2D artist who wants to work across multiple teams on one of gaming’s most well-known MMORPGs?
As an Art Generalist on RuneScape, you will contribute across a broad range of 3D & 2D visual elements on the game. You’ll have the opportunity to create characters, props, outfits, weapons, concept art & illustrations, delivering high quality work across multiple art functions in the team.
Reporting to the Associate Art Director, this is a role that will have significant impact on the productivity of the team, and is an opportunity for an artist with an adaptable and versatile skillset to flex their creative muscles across a variety of different avenues.
You’ll work with the talented RuneScape team, to keep bringing delightful and memorable experiences to players all over the world.
What you’ll be doing:
Create high quality 3D character and environment assets ranging across creatures, humans, weapons, objects, architecture kits, and set dressing for RuneScape.
Produce high quality concept art for characters, environments, and objects, ensuring the concept is on-style and consistent with the established art direction and collaborate with 3D Artists to bring these concepts to life.
Creating high quality Icons and illustrations for in game UI and marketing purposes.
Work with a variety of industry standard tools including Photoshop, Illustrator, Zbrush, Maya, Substance Painter, and Marmoset Tool bag 3 to bring your ideas to life.
Work closely with the wider art team to ensure assets are consistently designed & optimised in line with the Art Style of RuneScape.
Work closely with Content Developers to ensure assets are correctly implemented in the game engine.
Provide feedback to artists in group reviews and support more junior members of the team in day-to-day production.
Collaborating with the rest of the team to aid with future art asset and project ideas.
Collaborate with the design team to solve problems where art and design meet.
What we’re looking for:
Proven experience in and a portfolio demonstrating high quality 3D Game Art across both characters and props/environments.
Demonstrable experience creating 2D concept art and illustrations for video games.
Solid experience using DCC for games including Maya & Z-brush.
Experienced as an artist on more stylised games.
Proven experience of working on a variety of different tasks and a willingness to have the flexibility to work across multiple different art disciplines on the team.
What we offer:
When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:
Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
Minimum 6% Pension contributions
Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
Life Insurance
Discretionary annual performance bonus
Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
Flexible working hours
25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!
Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where in the UK you log in.
Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.
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.