3D Artist

Job Description

Are you ready to dive into the world of gaming, guided by the exceptional capabilities of Unreal, and be part of a mission to prove that games inspired by the LEGO idea can be the most fun, creative, and collaborative?

Making phenomenal digital content we bring LEGO ideas to life

As a 3D Artist you will deliver heavily optimized hard surface and organic LEGO bricks using Maya, as well as crafting normal and alpha maps for game engines and various game platforms.

• Understanding where to put polygons in order to ensure the best possible quality with a limited polygonal budget and sharing the knowledge with the rest of the team.
• Responsibility of technical QA of your own work.
• Investigations on new workflows, and challenging and optimizing existing ones.
• Working within a flexible team where priorities might change quickly.
• Strong communication skills and ability to give and receive feedback.
• Actively promoting a continuous improvement culture in our team and ways of working.

The department of Virtual Asset Design is responsible for delivering 2D, 3D and animated digital elements and assets. We support The LEGO Group by modeling, texturing and simplifying assets for LEGO Building Instructions, packaging, marketing, digital games and various other digital media and pipelines. This includes high fidelity rendering as well as games and other real-time experiences.

You will be part of a small team that is focused on optimizing LEGO bricks for game production. The team provides optimized meshes mainly targeted at lower end platforms where complexity of LEGO bricks can be a challenge. Your effort will be directly linked to millions of end users having a better gaming experience.

The ideal candidate brings several years of relevant industry experience. Specifically, we are looking for the following expertise:

• Experience with Unreal Engine. Unity experience is a plus.
• Experience with Autodesk Maya is key, being skilled in modeling, retopology and UVing. Other software knowledge is appreciated.
• Experience with creating assets for mobile and Switch is an extensive plus.
• Strong knowledge of low polygon workflows.
• Ability to ensure visual consistency across LODs by maintaining edge flow, silhouette integrity, and detail across each level.
• Understanding normal and alpha mapping techniques.
• Knowledge of atlas and trim sheet workflows.
• Experienced in using Adobe Substance 3D Painter or similar texturing software.

Please share in English your CV, motivational letter, and portfolio. It is required to upload a portfolio (maximum upload size per file is 2 MB) or to share a link clearly highlighted in the CV.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Here is what you can expect:

• Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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