Lead Environment Artist

Are you an exceptional 3D Environment and Set Dressing artist with a natural talent for leadership and a passion for bringing immersive worlds to life? At 3Doubles, we are looking for a creative, highly organized, and inspiring Lead Environment Artist. You will be the technical and artistic reference for our environment team, guiding artists to ensure our sets, props, and complex 3D environments achieve the highest standards of visual storytelling and pipeline efficiency. If you are a master of composition, optimization, and environmental narrative, a natural mentor, and thrive in a collaborative, high-energy environment, we want to meet you!

• Act as the technical and artistic reference for the team, bridging the macro vision of the Environment Supervisor with daily execution.

• Provide ongoing guidance and advice to environment and setdress artists, ensuring that complex environments meet quality standards, scale and performance requirements.

• Assign tasks strategically based on artist strengths, track team progress, and maintain production tracking tools (Jira, ShotGrid, Confluence).

• Step in to support the Environment Supervisor, maintain the project's artistic direction, and lead the department in their absence.

• Diagnose and resolve complex technical or creative bottlenecks to maintain pipeline flow.

• Establish and refine department workflows, style guides, and optimization protocols.

• Collaborate closely with downstream departments (Layout, Animation, LookDev, Lighting) to ensure seamless asset integration.

🏢 Work Mode: On-site
📍Location: Tenerife, Spain
📄Contract Type: Full-time
🚀 Start Date: To be agreed upon

• Work-Life Balance: Intensive morning shift (07:30 AM - 03:00 PM). You'll have your afternoons free to enjoy the island sun.

• Team Culture: Here, you aren't just a number; your voice is heard, and your ideas truly matter.

• Creative Environment: A creative, innovative, and collaborative studio culture.

• Growth: A leadership role in high-level professional animation

• 4-5 years of experience as a Set Dressing and Environment Artist in 3D animation or VFX, with proven experience in a Senior or leadership role (Lead, Mentor, Technical Lead).

• Outstanding portfolio showcasing technical and artistic mastery in building, dressing, and optimizing complex 3D worlds.

• Advanced expertise in Houdini, Maya, Substance Painter/Designer, rendering engines, and resource management. With a special focus on USD and Solaris.

• Deep understanding of visual composition, environmental storytelling, scale, lighting, and color to translate 2D concepts into functional 3D environments.

• Strong leadership profile: empathetic, highly organized, decisive, proactive, dynamic, and resilient under pressure with a growth mindset.

• Strong understanding of downstream pipeline stages.

• Advanced English is required (additional languages are a plus).