About you

You’re a skilled and curious environment artist who loves the balance of creativity and technical problem-solving. You take pride in the details, from the way a texture feels under lighting to how efficiently a scene runs in-game. You’re motivated by building environments that don’t just look good, but also perform beautifully, and you understand the value of clear documentation and strong collaboration in making that happen.
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With your mix of artistic flair and technical know-how, you’re comfortable switching between hands-on asset creation and bigger-picture thinking about optimisation and workflows. Most importantly, you’re eager to keep learning, share your knowledge, and contribute to a supportive, talented team building games that players love.

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About the role

At fish in a bottle, we’re passionate about crafting beautiful, meaningful game worlds that are as technically solid as they are visually striking.

As a Technical Environment Artist, you’ll be at the centre of this process, combining artistic flair with technical precision to create immersive, optimised environments. This role isn’t just about building assets, it’s about shaping believable, engaging spaces that enhance gameplay and bring our games to life.

Your work will be at the heart of our games. From material creation and lighting to modular kits and trim sheets, you’ll have the freedom to contribute your expertise while collaborating closely with developers, designers, and artists.

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What you'll be doing

• Creating large open world environments.
• Creating and optimising environment assets, materials, and modular kits in Unreal Engine 5.
• Developing trim sheets, lighting setups, and textures that enhance realism and performance.
• Applying optimisation techniques, including LOD creation, suitable tri-counts, and real-time lighting solutions.
• Working through the full asset pipeline, from high/mid/low poly modelling to UV unwrapping, baking, and texturing.
• Collaborating with the team to ensure environments are visually cohesive and technically sound.
• Supporting level creation and ensuring assets fit within tri-budgets and project art styles.

What we're looking for

• Strong experience with Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Blender, and Unreal Engine 5.
• Proven ability in material creation, real-time lighting, and asset optimisation.
• Skilled in modular design and trim sheets, with a realistic art style focus.
• Solid understanding of traditional art principles (colour, form, proportions).
• Great attention to detail, with a methodical, problem-solving mindset.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to write clear documentation.
• Great team spirit.

Bonus points if you have

• Some experience with Blueprints or animation/rigging in Unreal.
• Experience working in Unity.
• Familiarity with source control (Bitbucket, Sourcetree), Jira, or Confluence.
• Experience completing a full game development cycle, from pre-production to release.
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About fish in a bottle

Our mission is to make the world better through playable experiences.

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For over twenty years we’ve collaborated with visionary innovators, brands and educators, making us one of the most experienced interactive studios in the world.

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We work with visionaries to create commercial hits, award winners and purposeful products that improve people’s lives.

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We create games, apps and web platforms that educate, train, raise awareness, promote social change and positively impact people’s lives.

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Things to know

This is a full time, 12 month contract, remote working position.

There is the need to travel from time to time to attend client and company meetings. Please consider your ability to travel occasionally when applying for this position.

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The position is open to anyone eligible to work in the UK.

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• CV
• A brief introduction and tell us a bit about yourself, why you like the sound of the role and fish in bottle.
• Your portfolio - it’s essential that we see examples of your environment game art.
• Salary expectations.

We carefully review each application, but unfortunately we’re not able to get back to everyone individually. If we’d like to progress with your application we’ll be in touch with you within two weeks.

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No recruitment agencies, please. Direct candidates only.

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Equality

We are committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively, we uphold these principles in our behaviour and working practices. We are therefore committed to promoting equality at every opportunity and our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity.

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