Lead Look Development Artist (Remote)

Blue Zoo Animation Studio; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and remote working policy

Career development opportunities

Studio lunches and healthy snacks

Engaging team events

Job summary

Blue Zoo Animation Studio is seeking a Look Development Artist to define and maintain the visual language for our upcoming projects, including ZooLab and feature animation. You will craft shading, textures and lighting, build robust pipelines, and collaborate with Directors to deliver production-ready looks.

You will mentor teammates, balance creative ambitions with technical constraints, and contribute to R&D of new tools and workflows to push the studio’s visual quality.

Qualifications

• Experience in CG/animation production pipeline.
• Proven 3D Look Development experience with character/environment/prop surfacing.
• Experience taking assets from Look Dev brief to production-ready.
• Strong time management; meet production deadlines.
• Ability to provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Experience mentoring junior artists.
• Proven scripting ability in Python or Mel.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain Look Development standards across the project.
• Create Look Dev templates, shaders, lighting setups, reusable assets.
• Collaborate with Production and CG Supervisors early on requirements.
• Ensure look development is efficient, scalable for production.
• Present Look Dev work for creative approval and final sign-off.
• Train and guide junior team members; review and feedback.
• Drive R&D and new workflows to push visual quality.

Skills

CG production

3D Look Dev

Shading & Lighting

Asset publishing

Mentoring

Problem solving

Collaboration

Time management

Communication

Scripting (Python/Mel)

Tools

Maya

Redshift

Arnold

Xgen

Ornatrix

Mari

Photoshop

Substance

Nuke

Job description

Blue Zoo Animation Studio is seeking a Look Development Artist to define and maintain the visual language for our upcoming projects, including ZooLab and feature animation. You will craft shading, textures and lighting, build robust pipelines, and collaborate with Directors to deliver production-ready looks.

You will mentor teammates, balance creative ambitions with technical constraints, and contribute to R&D of new tools and workflows to push the studio’s visual quality.