About this role
As a Lead 3D Artist, you'll be responsible for setting the visual quality bar across 3D art, guiding asset creation from concept through to final in-game implementation. You'll lead by example - creating high-quality assets while supporting, mentoring, and coordinating the wider art team to ensure consistent, polished results. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends artistic excellence with clear communication and planning. You'll work closely with other disciplines to balance visual ambition with technical constraints, ensuring assets are both beautiful and performant across platforms. Responsibilities Work directly with studio leadership in coordinating art resources, schedules and priorities based on project needs Provide direction to artists for aesthetic and technical considerations Understand and work around existing art pipelines Be hands on with producing benchmark assets to style and brief of project Help lead the production and creation of art assets for the projects Communicate and deliver assets cooperatively and independently within a 3rd Party production environment Has expertise with PBR, lighting, rendering, and material authoring Collaborate with Production to prioritize work, identify issues, and escalate them to production, ensuring tasks have sufficient information Review work to meet the technical requirements and following best practices for the highest quality Be proactive in finding answers and able to clearly communicate issues and direction to the team Capable of owning development of, and delivering, content while leading by example Ensure the team maintains high-quality artistic results and milestone delivery, while encouraging effective communication and professionalism Receive and provide critique in a professional manner Able t...