Senior 3D Artist

We’re looking for a Senior 3D Artist to join our award winning team in Middlesbrough (UK), home to the beautiful North Yorkshire coastline and countryside. 

As a Senior 3D Artist at Double Eleven, you’ll create high-quality props and assets to populate and elevate our game environments. Collaborating closely with the Art Director, Lead Artist, and our experienced Art Team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the game’s final visual identity.

The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and highly creative with an exceptional artistic vision. They will understand how top-tier 3D assets convey tone, evoke emotion, and inspire the wider development team. They will bring robust industry knowledge, proven game development experience and a genuine passion for gaming.

Double Eleven is one of the largest independent video games developers and publishers in the UK. Headquartered in Middlesbrough, we employ over 400 people across our UK and Kuala Lumpur studios.

We are incredibly proud to partner with some of the world’s leading developers and publishers, including Rockstar Games, Obsidian Entertainment, Mojang, Bethesda Game Studios and Facepunch. 

As a global games company, we've collaborated to create new worlds in The Outer Worlds 2, helped deliver unforgettable experiences for players of Red Dead Redemption, enabled millions to battle in Rust Console Edition and created new adventures in Fallout 76. 

Double Eleven is more than a place to work, we are deeply values-driven in all that we do and we know that we are at our best when our people feel fulfilled. We offer flexible working hours to allow you to truly enjoy work/life balance and always strive to deliver a workplace experience like no other.  We regularly bring our people together to connect and have fun through our many different events, parties and hobby-based clubs.

Interested? We kindly ask all applicants to submit a portfolio showreel to support their application. We’re afraid applications without an accompanying portfolio will not be considered.

On this occasion, we’re unable to sponsor a visa for this role. 

What you’ll be doing 

• Create high-quality, AAA-standard 3D assets that align with the project's artistic vision, technical requirements, and established production pipelines
• Produce a wide variety of hard surface and organic assets using efficient high-to-low poly workflows, modular construction techniques, and trim sheet methodologies
• Take assets from concept art, reference material, or mood boards through to polished, game-ready implementation with minimal supervision
• Create, export, and implement assets within game engines, ensuring they are correctly configured and meet technical and visual standards.
• Ensure all assets meet agreed benchmarks for modelling, topology, UV layouts, texturing and optimisation
• Collaborate closely with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines to deliver high-quality content that supports gameplay and project goals
• Identify and resolve artistic or technical challenges, proactively seeking solutions that balance visual quality with performance
• Plan, manage, and deliver your work to agreed schedules while maintaining a consistently high standard of quality
• Mentor and support other artists by sharing knowledge, providing constructive feedback, and helping to foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of art pipelines, workflows, best practices, and quality standards across the team

What we’re looking for

• Excellent proficiency with industry-standard art tools, such as Maya or 3ds Max, Substance Designer/Painter, ZBrush, and Photoshop
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across art, design, engineering, production, and other disciplines
• The ability to critically evaluate your own work, provide constructive feedback to others, and contribute to maintaining high artistic standards across the team
• A solid technical understanding of real-time game development, including creating and optimising assets to meet memory, performance, and gameplay requirements
• Confidence in planning, prioritising, and accurately estimating your own work while delivering to agreed deadlines
• Excellent knowledge of UV layouts, colour theory, composition, and asset presentation
• A strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality hard surface and organic environment, prop, or character assets suitable for modern game development
• Excellent understanding of game engines and the technical requirements for implementing high-quality art assets
• Good knowledge of trim sheet workflows and efficient asset creation techniques
• Experience creating high-quality physically based rendering (PBR) materials using modern texturing workflows
• A collaborative mindset with a high level of professionalism, integrity, accountability, and a genuine commitment to supporting the wider team
• A passion for creating exceptional game art, continuously improving your craft, and helping others to develop

Qualifications

• All relevant qualifications considered

What to expect

Working life at Double Eleven 

• Start your day any time between 8:00am and 10:00am
• 35 working hours per week with a 1 hour lunch break (with the opportunity to flex down to 30 minutes or up to 2 hours)
• Opportunity to apply for hybrid working  (up to 2 days working from home per week) 
• 28 days annual leave (20 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday) 
• 1 day leave for your birthday and 1 day leave if you’re moving house
• Up to 10 days discretionary annual leave during our end of year break
• A brand new, state-of-the-art studio facilities that includes a market hall serving nutritious, subsidised meals, round-the-clock gym access, an auditorium and more
• Subsidised market hall with food, freshly prepared daily by our in-house hospitality team
• Free breakfast options, juice, hot drinks and fruit.
• Employee referral bonus (up to £2000!)
• Electric Car Scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Free game codes, game swag and merchandise
• Family-friendly leave available
• Christmas Saving Scheme
• Free parking
• Best-in-class tools and workflows so you can focus on creativity

Recognising your contribution - award schemes

• Annual Profit Share
• Length of Service
• Annual High Performer Award

Professional development and wellbeing

• Vitality Private Healthcare, discounts and rewards for you, your spouse and children (upon the successful completion of your 6 month probationary period) 
• Access to mental health and wellbeing support via Plumm (includes 4 free video therapy sessions per month for both the employee and up to 3 family members aged 18+), unlimited text therapy, courses, meditations
• Financial support when needed most, with critical illness and income protection to support you should you become unwell or unable to work. Along with Life assurance to support your loved ones in the event of your death
• A personalised development plan with dedicated support tailored to your growth and goals
• Access to an accredited Academy providing professional qualifications (and access to 500 UK discounts and offers via TOTUM when registered as a student) 
• A dedicated Workplace Experience team responsible for work environments, workplace and quality of employee life services to help foster collaboration, creativity and innovation
• In-studio wellbeing programmes and People team support

Team life 

•  Free activities via our Bus Tours programme (where on occasion, partners and children are welcome to join you) 
• Many team events to celebrate team and game milestones
• Sponsored team activities including football, basketball, book club, movie club and more 
• Opportunity to contribute to our internal Employee Diversity and Equality Network

Ways to reach us

If you have a general query or if you need support with your application and/or an alternative way to apply, please do not hesitate to contact our Talent team at Double Eleven