Lead 3D Artist / Art Director

Dissonant Games; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Dissonant Games in Lisbon, Portugal seeks a Lead 3D Artist / Art Director to define and maintain the game's visual identity from its early stages. You will shape concepts, supervise art progress, and ensure consistency across environments, props and characters.

You'll deliver modular assets, work primarily in Blender, and integrate assets into Unity, collaborating closely with the small team to ship a cohesive and visually striking first project.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a small art team on a game project.
• Strong portfolio showing 3D assets, environments and art direction.
• Ability to define visual style and maintain consistency across assets.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the game's visual identity and artistic direction.
• Create 3D environments, props and game-ready assets.
• Model, UV unwrap, texture and prepare assets for real-time use.
• Develop modular environment kits and reusable asset systems.
• Explore concepts, references, materials and visual styles.
• Import, integrate and optimize assets in Unity.
• Establish workflows and maintain visual consistency across the project.

Skills

Leadership

Art direction

Concept development

3D asset creation

Collaboration

Blender proficiency

Unity proficiency

Tools

Blender

Unity

Job description

Dissonant Games | Lisbon, Portugal | Full-time

Hey! We're looking for a Lead 3D Artist / Art Director who'll help define, develop and maintain the visual identity of our small studio's first video game project.

You'll be part of a small dev team, and the role combines art direction with hands-on 3D production. We're looking for someone with strong creative energy, a good foundation of experience and plenty of ideas, who is excited by the chance to help shape the look and feel of a game from an early stage.

You'll be primarily working with Blender, as well as developing concept art, working with physical materials etc. The game itself is being created in Unity. We'll need you to model, UV, texture, and prepare assets for real-time use, as well as create modular environment kits and reusable asset systems for fast level production.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with the team to define and maintain the game's visual identity and artistic direction.
• Create 3D environments, props and game-ready assets.
• Model, UV unwrap, texture and prepare assets for real-time use.
• Develop modular environment kits and reusable asset systems.
• Explore concepts, references, materials and visual styles.
• Import, integrate and optimize assets in Unity.
• Establish workflows and maintain visual consistency across the project.

Conditions

• Full-time position.
• Location: Lisbon, Portugal.
• Work arrangement: On-site
• Contract: Fixed-term