Rebellion is seeking a talented, highly experienced, and deeply driven Senior Environment Artist to champion the visual quality and environmental storytelling of an exciting, unannounced AAA title. Operating with a massive amount of autonomy, you will take full ownership of entire levels, translating loose creative briefs into high-fidelity, polished game spaces.
In this leadership-adjacent role, you will bridge the gap between imagination and execution—collaborating tightly with level designers, conducting proactive asset research, handling outsource feedback, and setting performance metrics for current-gen platforms. Crucially, you will serve as an active mentor and role model for our environment art team, fostering an office atmosphere of intense creativity, technical growth, and mutual enthusiasm.
Job Overview : Senior Environment Artist
| Job Attribute | Details |
| Position | Senior Environment Artist |
| Company | Rebellion Game Studios |
| Locations (On-Site) | Oxford (HQ), Warwick, or Runcorn (United Kingdom) |
| Core Software | Blender (Preferred), Substance Painter, PBR Workflow |
| Art Style | Professional, High-Fidelity Realistic |
| Leadership Level | Senior (Mentorship, Outsource Feedback, & High Autonomy) |
| Project Type | Unannounced AAA Title |
| Right to Work | Permanent UK Work Rights Required (No Visa Sponsorship) |
| Relocation | Full Package Available (Moving assistance & temporary housing) |
Introduction: #JoinTheRebellion
For three decades, Rebellion has stood as a fiercely independent bastion of creativity, technological innovation, and high-octane entertainment. Founded by Jason and Chris Kingsley, we have grown from a passionate core team into a multi-studio phenomenon that refuses to be boxed into a single category. While Rebellion is globally renowned for developing and publishing critically acclaimed, chart-topping video games, our ecosystem stretches far beyond the digital realm.
We own and operate our own state-of-the-art film and television studios. We craft immersive board games that bring people together around physical tables. We publish gripping novels and non-fiction books. Furthermore, as the custodians of the legendary 2000 AD brand, Rebellion is the proud curator, publisher, and steward of some of the world’s most iconic comics and graphic novels—including the dystopian masterpiece, Judge Dredd.
When you join Rebellion, you are not just taking a job at a studio; you are becoming an integral part of an expansive, multi-media creative empire. As a massive independent developer, we maintain complete creative freedom over our titles, allowing us to work on an incredible variety of projects across all major current-generation platforms. We love what we do, we have fun doing it, and we are looking for an exceptional Senior Environment Artist to help us shape our next blockbuster universe.
The Opportunity & Project Vision
This is a monumental moment to step into a leadership pipeline at Rebellion. Fresh off the massive, critically acclaimed success of Atomfall—our largest, most ambitious game launch to date—and building upon the legendary legacy of our flagship Sniper Elite series, we are aggressively looking forward to the future.
We are seeking a passionate, technically accomplished senior artist to help elevate the visual threshold, moody atmosphere, and underlying environment narratives of a highly anticipated, unannounced project. This is a rare opportunity to step into an environment where you are trusted with true autonomy. You won’t just be executing checklists; you will be expected to prototype, research real-world references, and pick up critical tasks along the way while keeping an eagle-eye view on the global artistic vision of the game.
Core Roles & Responsibilities
As a senior-level artist at Rebellion, a high degree of independent initiative, a proactive attitude, and a naturally curious mindset are critical to your success. Your day-to-day journey will include:
Spatial Design & Advanced Prototyping
- Narrative Flow Planning: Partner tightly with Rebellion Level Designers to transform gray-box layout concepts into visually stunning, logical, and highly navigable spaces.
- Worldbuilding Documentation: Design spaces with deep consideration for environmental storytelling, lighting, and history, clearly documenting your thematic intentions for cross-discipline transparency.
- Loose-Brief Navigation: Proactively research, prototype, and unpack abstract or loose art briefs, turning ambiguous concepts into concrete 3D mechanics and visual anchors.
Cross-Discipline Collaboration & Pipeline Protection
- Technical Quality Control: Work alongside Technical Artists and Senior Artists to monitor, establish, and safeguard the performance optimization of current-gen console scenes.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Communicate clearly with producers, directors, and external stakeholders to pitch asset directions and smoothly incorporate project feedback.
- Outsource Guidance: Review, critique, and provide highly actionable aesthetic and technical feedback for work returned by external outsourcing pipelines.
Team Leadership & Mentorship
- Active Mentorship: Act as an accessible professional mentor and role model for junior and mid-level artists, reviewing their work and encouraging technical proficiency.
- Morale Cultivation: Support the Lead Environment Artist with ad-hoc production requests, actively working to keep team morale, passion, and artistic enthusiasm incredibly high.
Candidate Requirements & Qualifications
We are looking for an industry veteran who sits comfortably at the perfect intersection of creative world-building and strict technical scene management. Your portfolio must showcase breathtaking realistic environments, advanced modular layouts, and complex prop structures deployed smoothly within a modern game engine.
Professional Experience
- Proven AAA Background: Extensive experience operating within a professional video game development environment across major shipping cycles.
- Profiling & Optimizing: Deep knowledge of engine profiling tools to optimize geometric scenes, combat draw-call limitations, and master budget targets for modern current-gen hardware.
- In-Engine Lighting: Direct, hands-on experience setting up, baking, or dynamic-lighting environments within a modern engine pipeline to maximize emotional mood and composition.
Software & Technical Expertise
- 3D Mastery: Expert familiarity with industry-standard 3D software suites. While various modeling backgrounds are welcomed, Blender remains Rebellion’s preferred pipeline tool.
- Texturing, Baking, & PBR: Comprehensive mastery of Substance Painter, high-to-low poly baking routines, and the underlying physics of PBR material authoring.
- Production Cleanliness: Absolute precision when building game-ready geometry, maximizing uv-space layout efficiency, and maintaining hyper-accurate texel densities.
Comprehensive Benefits Package
At Rebellion, we believe that our people are our greatest asset. To ensure our team feels valued, secure, and motivated, we offer an extensive, industry-leading benefits package designed to support your life both inside and outside the studio:
- Generous Paid Time Off: 22 days of annual leave, plus a dedicated Christmas studio closure (typically 4 days), alongside all standard UK Bank Holidays. To reward loyalty, your holiday allowance increases with service after 5 years by one day each year, up to a maximum of 31 days.
- Health & Wellness: Premium Private Medical Insurance and a comprehensive healthcare cash plan that includes dental and vision coverage.
- Financial Protection: Robust Life Assurance, Income Protection, and Critical Illness Cover to give you and your loved ones total peace of mind.
- Family Support: Enhanced Family Leave policies to support you through life’s major milestones.
- Financial Flexibility: Access to interest-free, tax-free loans for travel or personal needs, alongside an Enhanced Pension Scheme.
- Mental Health Support: A dedicated Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing a wide array of mental health, wellness, and counseling resources.
- Perks & Lifestyle: A massive selection of retail discounts, lifestyle freebies, and regular, subsidised studio social events.
Work Environment & Studio Options
Creativity thrives when you are comfortable. This position can be based out of any of our three primary UK studio locations, each boasting its own relaxed, open, and incredibly collaborative atmosphere.
- Rebellion Oxford (HQ): Our beautiful, riverside headquarters close to the historic city center.
- Rebellion Warwick: Nestled in the historic heart of the Midlands, blending tech and culture.
- Rebellion Runcorn: Located in the vibrant North West, offering a brilliant, creative hub.
Seamless Relocation Support
We understand that moving to a new city is a major life event. To make your transition as smooth and stress-free as possible, Rebellion provides a comprehensive relocation assistance package. This includes moving logistics support, temporary local accommodation upon arrival, and dedicated guidance to help you settle into your new community.
Life at Our Oxford Headquarters
Should you choose to base yourself at our main headquarters, you will be working out of a stunning riverside location just a short, scenic walk from the heart of Oxford city center.
Culture and Connection
Oxford is a city world-renowned for its rich historical tapestry, magnificent architecture, prestigious educational institutions, and sprawling green spaces. It perfectly balances traditional English charm with a bustling, modern, cosmopolitan lifestyle.
Commuting and Accessibility
The studio features excellent transport links. The Oxford train station is a brief walk from our front doors, providing rapid, frequent service directly into central London, as well as direct routes to other major cultural hubs like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading. For those who prefer to drive, Rebellion offers completely free vehicle parking directly on-site at the studio.
On-Site Amenities
Our open-plan office layout is specifically engineered to break down corporate silos, actively promoting cross-departmental innovation and regular, casual interaction with senior leadership. Every workday is enhanced by access to free hot drinks, an excellent on-site tuck shop, and immediate access to a fantastic array of local riverside pubs, cafes, and diverse dining options.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Right to Work
Our Commitment to Progress
At Rebellion, we foster an inclusive culture where you are actively encouraged to be your authentic self. We believe that a representative, diverse team creates richer, deeper, and ultimately better entertainment products. We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce and continue to expand our culture of personal growth and systemic inclusion. Rebellion celebrates all demographics of culture, gender identity, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, and beyond. Innovation thrives when varied perspectives collide.
Right to Work Statement
Please Note: This specific position is strictly open to applicants who already possess the permanent right to work within the United Kingdom. Rebellion is unable to provide, sponsor, or take over visa sponsorship for this role, either now or at any point in the future. All applicants must be capable of demonstrating their ongoing, independent eligibility to work in the UK during the application phase.
If you are a talented environment artist looking to take the next major step in your career with an independent studio that values your balance, your health, and your creative voice, we want to hear from you.
Apply today and help Rebellion build the future of interactive entertainment!
