Senior Level Artist

Cloud Chamber; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Chamber is seeking a Senior Level Artist to shape the next BioShock installment. You’ll craft immersive environments, build modular kits, and drive environmental storytelling, contributing to a richly imagined world.

You will work with design, art, engineering, and audio teams to push for high standards, maintain look development, and own your space from concept to delivery, while communicating clearly under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Art, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience shipping at least one 3D AAA title in FPS or third person.
• Proficient with Unreal 4/5 and cross-discipline collaboration.
• Strong eye for composition, color and detail.
• Ability to own long-term creative and production ownership over levels.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Level Design, Modeling, Narrative, Concept, Combat, and Cinematic teams.
• Create believable, functional environments from scratch.
• Iterate layouts using blocking to support combat and level design needs.
• Create modular kits and collection sets for dramatic spaces.
• Own your environments and ensure technical compliance with team standards.
• Contribute to look development and document processes for repetition.
• Communicate with team, production, and management to meet goals and deadlines.

Skills

Unreal 4/5 experience

AAA title shipping

Cross-discipline collaboration

Strong communication

Autonomous ownership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Art

Tools

Unreal Engine

Job description

As a Senior Level Artist at Cloud Chamber, you will join our talented development team to shape the next installment of the BioShock franchise. In this role, you’ll collaborate with a passionate group of game developers to construct visually stunning and gameplay-enhancing game worlds, create and maintain modular kits to optimally build believable and detailed spaces, and propel the narrative through environmental storytelling, bringing the richly imagined world of BioShock to life.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate closely with the Level Design, Modeling, Narrative, Concept, Combat, and Cinematic teams.
• Create believable, functional, and visually strong environments from scratch.
• Gather references, concept art, and translate Art Direction into clear and repeatable. architectural and world construction rules, communicating and championing those rules to peers both in and out of the Art Department.
• Iterate on layouts using blocking to support and enhance combat and level design requirements, scene composition, and general world logic.
• Create and compose modular kits and collection sets to form optimized yet dramatic and detailed spaces.
• Assume full long term creative, technical, and production ownership over your levels. Contribute to the artistic vision of your space, ensure that dependencies are properly communicated, and your work is technically compliant according to best practices established by the Tech Art and Core Tech teams.
• Participate in look development, creating visual benchmark environments and level layouts to present to your team and develop processes in which to replicate those successes.
• Communicate effectively with team members, production, and management to ensure that project goals and deadlines are met.
• Work with Leads to develop world building and modeling processes, alignment decks, documentation and tutorials, and ensure that quality is maintained for environment art.
• Receive, give, and apply feedback effectively while maintaining a constructive, team centric attitude.

What We’ll Do Together

At Cloud Chamber, we are champions of high standards, pushing for progress and embracing change. We will work closely and constructively across design, art, engineering, animation, and audio teams to realize our creative ambitions. Together, we will stay current on technological advancements and identify solutions to overcome developmental obstacles to deliver a world-class AAA experience.

Skills & Experiences

• Experience shipping at least one 3D AAA title in FPS or Third Person (using Unreal 4 or Unreal 5).
• Professional experience working with Unreal 5.
• Experience working within cross-discipline strike teams on collaborative assignments effectively and constructively.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Art, or equivalent work experience.
• Superior eye for composition, contrast, color, and detail.
• Proficient in the creation of modular kits and proxy models for high-quality, stylized environments.
• Solid understanding of form, shape, structure, and silhouette as it relates to world building.
• Solid understanding of architectural structure, spatial design, industrial design, and the details necessary for crafting the building blocks of believable environments.
• Experience creating and maintaining asset libraries, organized by theme and function.
• Experience with materials and shaders, knowing what is needed and where to use them for difficult visual targets is a plus.
• An interest in relevant adjacent disciplines such as architecture, urban design, interior design, photography, film, lighting, and drawing is beneficial.

Who You Are

• A reliable, positive force multiplier, actively seeking opportunities to integrate work across disciplines and contribute to a healthy, supportive team environment.
• A solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly, package information for diverse audiences, and deliver difficult feedback with empathy and professionalism.
• A persistent and self-motivated person with a proactive mindset.
• Able to maintain effectiveness and quality under pressure, ambiguity, and fast-changing priorities.
• An active listener able to build and maintain trust-based relationships across all levels of the organization, understand differing perspectives, and navigate organizational complexity with tact and emotional intelligence.
• Highly open to feedback and direction, possessing a desire to learn new skills, and capable of producing quick, quality revisions based on new insights or constraints.
• A strong owner of your tasks, who strives to drive their work forward autonomously while maintaining a critical eye for detail and organization, ensuring high standards of quality.
• Dedicated to upholding Cloud Chamber’s core values, contributing to a positive and respectful company culture while striving for excellence in all endeavors.

Who We Are

At Cloud Chamber we strive to make BioShock games that move people: evocative, immersive, and meaningful experiences that stay with you long after you’ve rolled credits. Great games are born from great collaborations, supported by a culture that brings out the best in our teams. We work openly, learn through play, take ownership, push ourselves to be better, and deliver for our players.

For Candidates Located In Quebec

This position requires professional proficiency in both French and English. Proficiency in English is required to collaborate with our U.S. teams and international partners, as well as to handle specialized technical documentation (reading, writing, and communication).

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform their essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.