Requirements 

• 5+ years of experience in game dev and/or film production 

• Mastery of industry-standard 3D modeling software such as Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender. 

• Advanced knowledge of ZBrush or Mudbox for high-poly organic and hard-surface sculpting. 

• Proven experience importing assets, setting up materials, and integrating and optimizing layouts within modern game engines (e.g., Unreal Engine 5, Unity). 

• Expertise in Substance 3D Painter and Designer for creating high-quality, PBR (Physically Based Rendering) textures and materials. 

• Deep technical knowledge of UE5 (Lumen, Nanite, and World Partition experience is a huge plus). 

• Ability to handle both high-fidelity character/creature work and environmental storytelling while iterating swiftly and efficiently 

• Great communication: Willingness to work autonomously, propose ideas, receive constructive feedback, and proactively engage with the game, its requirements and the briefs, be able to explain complex artistic concepts to non-art disciplines  

Responsibilities 

• UV Mapping: Efficient use of UV space, understanding of texel density, and experience with overlapping or unique UV layouts. 

• Optimization: Strong understanding of technical constraints, including polygon budgets, draw calls, texture atlas creation, and Level of Detail (LOD) setups. 

• World-Building & Composition: Strong eye for environmental storytelling, composition, lighting, color theory, and scene layout. 

• Architectural Understanding: Solid grasp of structural engineering basics, architectural styles, and realistic scale/proportion. 

• Style Adaptability: Ability to match and maintain a specific artistic direction, whether it is gritty photorealism or highly stylized/hand-painted aesthetics. 

• Concept Interpretation: Demonstrated ability to translate 2D concept art and production briefs into fully realized 3D environments. 

• Cross-Discipline Communication: Ability to collaborate closely with Level Designers to ensure gameplay spaces are functional, and Technical Artists to ensure assets run efficiently. 

• Organization: Clean file management, naming conventions, and adherence to established studio pipelines and documentation 

Pluses 

• Experience in film/VFX pipelines or a deep understanding of cinematic storytelling lighting, and composition. 

• Interest or proficiency in Maya, Blender, ZBrush, or Houdini. 

• A genuine love for dinosaurs and Japanese culture 

Floating Rock’s offering: 

• Chance to shape the future of Kyoryu from the beginning 

• Work among professionals who push for excellence every day while having fun 

• Visa support to live in New Zealand  

• Competitive NZ salary and long-term job security 

• Hybrid work (at least 60% on premise in Wellington studio) 

Requirements

• Advanced Sculpting & Anatomy: Mastery of digital sculpting (ZBrush or Mudbox) with a profound understanding of animal, reptilian, and avian anatomy, muscle distribution, and weight distribution.
• Texturing & Material Creation: Exceptional skill in creating high-resolution, realistic textures (Substance Painter/Designer) with a focus on complex organic surfaces like scales, osteoderms, leathery skin, and feathers.
• Unreal Engine Pipeline Integration: Proven experience importing, setting up, and optimizing character assets within Unreal Engine (UE5 preferred), including configuring materials, master materials, and utilizing Virtual Textures.
• Creature Specialization: A strong portfolio demonstrating a proven track record of creating high-quality, believable dinosaurs, for modern game engines.
• Optimization & Topology: Expertise in retopology and creating clean, production-ready low-poly meshes with efficient UV layout optimization, ensuring assets meet strict performance and budget guidelines without sacrificing visual quality.

Responsibilities

• Deformation & Rigging Awareness: Deep understanding of how organic topology deforms during animation, collaborating closely with riggers and animators to ensure clean articulation in joints, jaws, and extreme poses.
• Reference Interpretation: Ability to translate concept art, scientific skeletal reconstructions, and real-world paleontological references into 3D assets.
• Style Adaptability: Ability to match and maintain a specific artistic direction, whether it is realism or stylized/hand-painted aesthetics.
• Cross-Discipline Communication: Ability to collaborate closely with Designers and Tech Artists to ensure gameplay functionality and optimal performance.
• Feedback Integration: Openness to receive constructive feedback from Art Directors and Leads, with the agility to iterate quickly.
• Organization: Clean file management, naming conventions, and adherence to established studio pipelines and documentation
• Autonomy and project understanding: Willingness to work autonomously, propose ideas and proactively engage with the game, its requirements and the briefs.

Nice to have

• Creature FX experience (feathers, fur, etc.)
• Interest in Dinosaurs and Japanese culture
• Passion for storytelling and cinematography

Floating Rock’s offering

• The chance to shape the future of Kyoryu from day 1
• Work among professionals who push for excellence every day but also have a lot of fun while doing so.
• Relocation and Visa support to live in beautiful New Zealand
• Competitive salary for NZ market
• Hybrid work (At least 60% in Wellington office)

Requirements

• 5+ years in technical art roles with at least one shipped Unreal Engine title
• Core UE5 & Rendering: Deep, production-proven expertise with Unreal Engine 5, particularly Lumen, Nanite, and Virtual Texturing.
• Technical lighting: experience setting up and optimizing lighting to build mood, readability, and atmosphere in dense environments, balancing visual quality against performance. Strong command of the UE5 Material Editor and shader authoring across environment and landscape materials, with a performance-conscious approach.
• Tools & Pipeline: Expert-level Blueprint scripting to build editor utilities, custom details panels, and artist-facing tools that streamline the environment pipeline.
• Has console experience and proficiency in Python, Blueprints, and scripting for tool development and rapid iteration
• Proficiency with profiling tools (Unreal Insights, RenderDoc, PIX, or GPU Visualizer) to identify and resolve bottlenecks in memory, draw calls, and overdraw.
• Experience optimizing dense, complex environments to hit strict performance targets (e.g., 60 FPS) on PC and current-gen consoles.

Responsibilities

• Environment Creation: Hands-on environment work: able to get stuck in alongside the Environment Art team building and dressing dense, detailed spaces — bridging artistic intent with technical execution rather than working at arm's length. Strong experience authoring digital assets (HDAs) in SideFX Houdini for art production.
• Comfortable building light procedural tools to accelerate hand-authored workflows — speeding up blockouts, background fill, and initial environment setup — without taking authorial control away from artists.
• Proven experience establishing, maintaining, and documenting art-to-engine pipelines, with solid asset validation and version control (Perforce/Git) workflows.
• Optimization & Profiling: Strong understanding of performance budgets for static and dynamic environments: Nanite fallback meshes, LOD strategies, texture streaming pools, instancing (ISM/HISM), memory management, and lighting optimization.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Acts as the primary translator and facilitator between the Environment Art team and the Core Engineering/Rendering teams.
• Champions efficient environment workflows that blend hand-authored craft with light procedural tools to speed up production — without sacrificing artistic control.
• A track record of mentoring junior/mid-level technical artists and writing clear, accessible technical documentation and style guides.
• Works closely with Production and Leads to flag technical risks early and propose scalable solutions.

Nice to have

• Creature FX experience (feathers, fur, etc.)
• Interest in Dinosaurs and Japanese culture
• Passion for storytelling and cinematography

Floating Rock’s offering

• The chance to shape the future of Kyoryu from day 1
• Work among professionals who push for excellence every day but also have a lot of fun while doing so.
• Relocation and Visa support to live in beautiful New Zealand
• Competitive salary for NZ market
• Hybrid work (At least 60% in Wellington office)

Requirements

• A stellar animation reel demonstrating mastery of timing, weight, physics, body mechanics, and acting focusing on creatures through keyframe animation
• Deep, hands-on experience animating in Unreal Engine 5 and integrating animations into UE5 (Unreal Engine's Control Rig/Sequencer).
• Mentorship: Proven track record of mentoring senior and junior animators, providing constructive critique, and fostering a collaborative, growth-oriented team culture.

Responsibilities

• Autonomy and project understanding: Willingness to work autonomously, propose ideas and proactively engage with the game, its requirements and the briefs.
• Vision & Direction: Ability to establish, maintain, and drive the animation style guide and visual quality bar for the entire project in collaboration with the Creative Director.
• Cross-Discipline Collaboration: Strong communication skills to partner closely with technical artists, game designers, programmers, and production to solve complex gameplay and cinematic challenges.
• Pipeline Optimization: Ability to design, implement, and optimize animation pipelines and workflows to maximize team efficiency and runtime performance.

Nice to have

• Passion for storytelling and expressing complex feelings through acting
• Interest in Dinosaurs and Japanese culture

Floating Rock’s offering

• The chance to shape the future of Kyoryu from day 1
• Work among professionals who push for excellence every day but also have a lot of fun while doing so.
• Relocation and Visa support to live in beautiful New Zealand
• Competitive salary for NZ market

Requirements 

• 4+ years of professional experience as a Level Designer with ability for rapid iteration and autonomous problem solving 

• Proven experience building levels in Unreal Engine 5, ideally with working knowledge of World Partition, Enhanced Input, Lumen, and Nanite production workflows. 

• Third-Person Traversal Design: Deep understanding of the spacing, metrics, and pacing required for third-person action and adventure games, including camera collision, verticality, cover, navigation flow, and traversal systems such as climbing, vaulting, parkour, or environmental movement. 

• Encounter Design: Experience designing and tuning encounter spaces, including enemy placement, spawn positions, patrol routes, environmental hazards, and player approach options. Able to create spaces that naturally support encounter goals, reinforce intended player behaviours, and deliver the desired emotional experience. 

• Blueprint Scripting: Proficiency with Blueprint visual scripting for mission logic, gameplay flow, trigger setup, narrative sequences, environmental puzzles, and level-specific interactions, reducing reliance on engineering support for day-to-day implementation. 

• Production Tooling: Experience working with industry-standard production and source control tools such as Perforce, Git, Jira, Asana, or similar systems within a collaborative studio environment. 

• Ability to document and  communicate level design intent across disciplines. Collaborate in brainstorms and discussions. Offer innovative solutions and bring your unique point of view to the team. 

Responsibilities 

• Blocking and Greyboxing: Strong spatial design skills, with the ability to translate concept art, design briefs, and gameplay requirements into functional, playable blockouts. Able to balance pacing, scale, traversal, encounter spaces, and guiding sightlines. 

• Environmental Storytelling: Ability to embed narrative context, lore, and emotional beats directly into level geometry, layout, composition, and player flow, guiding progression and mood without relying solely on UI, text, or dialogue. 

• Cross-Discipline Collaboration : Proven ability to work closely with Narrative Designers to integrate story beats, Environment Artists to preserve visual intent through production, and Technical Designers or Engineers to maintain performance and implementation quality. 

• Iterative Design Process: Comfortable responding to playtest feedback, stakeholder notes, and creative direction, translating abstract critique into clear, actionable level changes.  

Nice to have 

• Interest in dinosaurs and Japanese culture 

• Optimizing environments and can set dress 

• Knowledge in cinematic tech art and understanding of art pipeline 

• Light coding skills

Floating Rock’s offering: 

• Chance to shape the future of Kyoryu from Day 1 

• Work among professionals who push for excellence every day while having fun 

• Visa support to live in New Zealand  

• Competitive NZ salary and long term job security 

• Hybrid work (at least 60% on premise in Wellington studio) 

Responsibilities 

• Design environments for a ruined, overgrown Tokyo: streets, interiors, landmarks, and the small details that show how the city fell and what lives there now

• Develop the look of our dinosaur characters and other creatures

• Create mood pieces, key art, and color scripts that set the tone for a scene before anything gets modeled

• Produce turnarounds, reference packs, and callouts that hand off cleanly to environment and character artists

• Sketch visual ideas for how a space guides the player and how key moments read on screen

• Iterate quickly through the prototype phase and help us work out what lands

Requirements 

• A strong portfolio with environment and/or creature concept work. We want to see range and storytelling, not just finish

• A real sense of mood and atmosphere. You can make a place feel abandoned, tense, or safe through composition and light

• Experience producing color scripts and character turnarounds

• Comfort designing for animation and gameplay, not only illustration. Your concepts account for how things move and how the camera sees them

• Solid fundamentals across form, value, color, perspective, and anatomy

• Experience working next to a video game, with a sense of what makes a concept usable downstream

• Openness to direction from the Art Director and Leads, with the agility to iterate quickly

Pluses 

• A shipped game, or one taken through production

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine 5, even at a basic level

• An understanding for Japanese architecture, culture, urban spaces, or nature reclaiming built environments

• A genuine love for dinosaurs and natural history, and a sense of how real animals inform believable design

• Some 3D skills (Blender, ZBrush, 3D photobashing) to speed up your own concepting

Floating Rock’s offering: 

• Chance to shape the look of Kyoryu as we move into Vertical Slice 

• Work among professionals who push for excellence every day while having fun 

• Competitive NZ salary 

• Hybrid work, ideally Wellington-based, or at least within New Zealand 

How to apply 

Send us a portfolio and a short note about what draws you to this kind of project.
Apply through the form on our careers page.