Technical Artist Role

We're looking for a freelance Unity technical artist to join us for a few months to help develop a beautiful, stylised, hand-painted aesthetic for our new relaxing strategy sandbox game for PC.

You'll be working with us to create a 3D environment with dynamic lighting, a day/night cycle and interactive natural elements by designing and writing shaders and coming up with creative technical solutions.

This is a role with a significant amount of creative scope to help make this game look amazing!

What you'll be doing:

• Setting up realtime lighting system for dynamic player-created scenes
• Implementing a day/night cycle
• Designing and writing shaders for grass, water and other natural elements
• Creating a skybox and volumetric cloud solution specific to the game's unique requirements
• Working with our artist on shaders and pipelines to bring life to assets in the game world
• Collaborating with our programmer to integrate environmental variables into the shaders e.g. windspeed, waterfall height, time of day etc.
• Contributing ideas to generally make the game look beautiful

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of dynamic lighting and Render Pipelines in Unity
• Experience in creating a range of stylised shaders
• Basic knowledge of Git

Contract:

Flexible part-time contract for approximately 3 days a week for three months starting in January. 9-5 GMT working hours (or close to) preferable but not essential.

Who We Are:

Codebyfire is a small independent game studio in the UK making beautiful and relaxing strategy games. We previously made The Colonists!

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