Experienced Character Artist

Based just outside of Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire the Southam campus is the global headquarters for Codemasters Software Company Limited. Occupying a 43 acre rural position these state of the art facilities currently house over 500 employees.

The HQ not only contains our award winning racing studio responsible for titles such as the DiRT and Grid franchises but houses our expanding Online department who themselves are currently developing exciting new products. This is also home to our Central Technology team who with the impressive EGO engine makes our internal products possible.

We are currently looking for an Experienced Character Artist to join our highly talented Central Art team

General Overview of the position:

Design, produce, implement, and document art assets to the required standards and assist in agreeing timescales with the Line Manager.

Main duties and responsibilities:

Design Art Assets
• Working from requirements delegated by Line Manager, develop a detailed specification.  To be agreed and signed off by Line Manager.
• Working with the agreed specification develop a schedule, in conjunction with Line Manager, for Implementation and Test.
• Identify and report additional tasks over and above the delegated work, that will aid the projects schedule and/ or quality.
Implementation and Testing of Art Assets
• Working from agreed specification and schedule, implement art assets to the required standard.
• Ensure all art assets are produced in line with the projects agreed standards.
• Report progress to Line Manager and inform them of any implementation issues promptly.
• Test all art assets against specification, to ensure they perform as required.
• Fix any bugs identified in owned art assets, either through own testing or by QA.
• Assist in fixing bugs across the project
• Working with other team members to resolve issues identified in implementation.
Documentation
• Ensure all art assets are documented in line with relevant procedures.
• Ensure scheduling documentation is up to date against targets.
• Ensure any tools and processes designed for use by a customer, are fully documented in a useable help file.

• Make a positive contribution to the team at all times
• Keep up to date with latest art, design and production techniques
• Assist other team members.

AND other such duties within the scope of the job title and at the Managers discretion