Materials/Surface Artist

As a Materials/Surface Artist, you'll be embedded in the client's art team, creating the materials and surfaces that define the look and feel of the game's world, characters and props.

The role

• Create high-quality, physically based materials and tileable textures for environments, props and characters

• Build and maintain master materials, material functions and instances in Unreal Engine

• Develop procedural and layered material workflows that scale across a large world

• Balance visual quality with performance and memory budgets on current-gen consoles

• Work closely with environment, character, lighting and technical art teams

What you'll need

• Shipped credits on at least one successful Action, Adventure or RPG title on console

• Experience on co-op or multiplayer projects

• 2 to 5 years creating materials or textures for games

• Strong experience with the Unreal Engine 4 or 5 material editor

• Expert use of Substance Designer and Substance Painter

• A portfolio showing realistic and/or stylised PBR material work

• Comfortable working remotely and independently inside a larger studio team

Nice to have

• Houdini or photogrammetry experience

• Understanding of virtual texturing and Nanite workflows in UE5

• Shader or technical art knowledge

Target start: Jan 2027