Material Artist

Flying Wild Hog Studio seeks an experienced and talented Material Artist to join our passionate team. As a Material Artist, you will play a crucial role in crafting the visual identity of our games by creating and maintaining a diverse library of textures and materials for a wide range of 3D assets across our game productions. If you're self-driven, deeply passionate about games, and thrive in a creative environment, this position perfectly matches you!

• Strong proven experience creating Materials, Textures, and Shaders
• Strong understanding of PBR rendering and materials
• Proficiency in software such as Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Quixel Mixer, or equivalent tools
• Experience working with photogrammetry and scanned textures, adapting, tweaking, and combining as needed by the project style and theme
• A portfolio showcasing your expertise in developing high-quality game-ready textures
• Knowledge of the Unreal Engine 4 or 5, Material Editor, and the Texture setup and optimization process
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills are essential
• A strong work ethic and excellent interpersonal skills like teamwork, problem-solving, and adaptability
• Proactively voice concerns and constructively raise issues
• Ability to improve and establish processes to enhance the material and texture creation workflows and streamline the pipeline
• Account for texel ratio and UV mapping
• Strong knowledge of any of the commercial Game Engines
• Examples of procedural textures used on props and environments
• A good grasp of color theory and lighting
• Experience with project management tools (Jira, Clickup, Confluence, etc…)