3D Game Environment Artist

This role creates background models for game development as a 3D environment artist. The position is a direct contract with BlazeGames, a Cygames subsidiary, and is not a secondment. The core work is the production of environment and background models for games.

Practical experience creating backgrounds with tools such as Maya, 3ds Max, or Softimage is required. Preferred experience includes completing at least one game title; implementing backgrounds in a game engine or having related knowledge; creating backgrounds for 3DCG video such as films or in-game pre-rendered CG; setting materials using PBR; sculpting with tools such as ZBrush; procedural modeling with Houdini; and producing textures or materials with Substance Designer. No education requirement is stated.

The role is situated within game development and involves collaborating with a team to make games. The posting values candidates who enjoy games, maintain interests outside games, work with a sense of speed, communicate effectively, and independently pursue investigation and production work.

The structured listing identifies the position as full-time, and the body describes it as permanent employment. It also notes that the engagement may start as a contract-employee arrangement or be conducted under an outsourcing contract. Annual compensation is listed as JPY 4,000,000 to JPY 10,000,000, with the final amount determined according to experience, ability, and company rules. A semiannual performance incentive is available outside the annual salary. The annual salary includes prescribed overtime and late-night work allowances, paid regardless of whether overtime work occurs.

The work location is in Shibuya, Tokyo, at Sumitomo Fudosan Shibuya Garden Tower. Remote work is available, including after the COVID-19 situation has ended, and remote work is currently being implemented. Working hours are 10:00 to 19:00, with eight scheduled working hours and a 60-minute break from 13:00 to 14:00. The office is generally non-smoking indoors, with a smoking room designated for heated tobacco products.

Holidays include a complete two-day weekend on Saturdays and Sundays, public holidays, three summer-leave days taken between July 1 and November 30, year-end and New Year holidays from December 29 to January 3, 10 days of annual paid leave in the first year, and condolence leave. For outsourcing contracts, the stated holiday and leave conditions may not apply. Health insurance, employment insurance, workers’ compensation insurance, and employees’ pension insurance are provided, subject to the same outsourcing-contract exception. Benefits and support include commuting expenses, a rent subsidy under the two-station rule, moving expenses, a child allowance, company social insurance, internal study sessions, and new-employee training; these benefits may also differ for outsourcing contracts.