iCL needs Environment Artist

[rowan_moss]

The Concept

A new sport has taken the World by storm. With a history that diverted from ours thousands of years ago, the superpowers of today are radically different. Sioux Indians hold North America, Vikings rule much of Europe and Russia, The Japanese have taken much of Asia and the Egyptians hold Africa... and for the benefit of the crowd they’re all killing each other. Huge stadiums holding hundreds of thousands of screaming fans encircle small combat arenas, where soldiers fight and die... and if you can’t hear the roar of the crowd, you’re already dead.

Media

See our final Sioux Sculpt and Sioux Theme (music in the video below), don't forget to watch at 1080p!

Music: Check out our Viking, Egyptian and Sioux themes here!

Weapon Modelling:

Take a look at our first completed weapon. The Lightforce by Synapse Weaponry. Beautiful modelling and texturing by Benjamin Leary.





Concepts:



Environment Art:

Here is one of our completed scenes, "Grapes Winery"



Take a look at this WIP scene of an environment building, "Fishawy's Cafe"



For more, visit our MODDB Page.

The Features

iCL is a Multiplayer First-Person Shooter in UDK, taking all the favourable elements from the current influx of FPS games, and combining them. There are 3 Classes: The Vikings (Heavy), The Sioux (Sniper) and The Egyptians (Assault/Medic). At the start of the game, you pick a character, and the second you start playing, you begin gaining experience and leveling up. As your character progresses, you can pick stat upgrades and new character specific weapon and perk unlocks become available for purchase. That's where the Sponsor System comes in. The more you play the game, sponsor's approach you, offering different amounts of money for different tasks in game - it could be something as simple as getting a kill for 100 Credits, to something as awesome as getting a double head-shot for 10,000 Credits! Only being able to have one sponsor active at one time means that you get to tailor your means of income based on your play-style.

The Team

We are pleased to announce that we have signed a contract with the illustrious and highly experienced company Digital Confectioners to fill our programming role.

Name: Rowan Moss
Role: Project Lead, Director
Experience: Degree in Computer Games Design (BSc)
Portfolio: www.rowanmoss.co.uk

Name: Digital Confectioners (James Tan, Sam Evans and Neil Reynolds)
Role: Programming
Experience: Epic Games (Documentation), Teotl Studios (The Ball), The Haunted: Hells Reach, Toxic Games (Q.U.B.E), Uppercut Games (Epoch)

Name: Emma Woollard
Role: Character Artist (Concept + 3D)
Experience: Degree in Computer Games Concept Art
Portfolio: www.ema-woollard.blogspot.com/

Name: Andrion Becker
Role: Animator
Portfolio: http://www.smootharcs.com/

Name: Benjamin Leary
Role: Weapon Artist
Portfolio: http://www.polygoblin.net/

Name: Matt Barton
Role: Environment Concept Artist
Experience: Degree in Computer Games Concept Art
Portfolio: http://www.digitalspherevfx.com/matte-paintings.html

Name: Ibrahim Wahab
Role: Environment Artist
Portfolio: http://www.ibrahimwahab.com/

Name: Samir Pookhan
Role: Environment Artist
Portfolio: http://samirpookhan.carbonmade.com/

Name: Jon Bjork
Role: Composer
Experience: Professional Composer
Portfolio: www.soundcloud.com/jon-bjork

Name: Daniel Swearengin
Role: Sound Designer

Recruitment

We are looking to fill only 1 position on the iCL Team. An Environment Artist. In terms of compensation, we offer a percentage of the revenue of the sales of the game of a predetermined amount agreed upon in negotiations. We have contracts drawn up ready to be signed upon agreement of the percentage you will be entitled to. The requirements for the position can be seen below:

Environment Artist:

Requirements:

• Experience with next-gen asset creation techniques.

• Hi-Poly to Lo-Poly Workflow.

• Deep understanding of texturing in Photoshop.

• Passion for creating realistic, visually beautiful environments.

• Can demonstrate previous high quality work.

Desirable:

• Have previous experience with UDK.

The successful applicant will be building a scene, focused on a building which will be features in our first level, based on a modern day version of Ancient Egypt. This kind of scene is perfect for dropping straight into a portfolio, so for anyone interested in building up their portfolio, this will be a great opportunity to do so whilst contributing to a fantastic team and game.

Please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Contact:
Skype: rowan_moss
Email: rowanmoss@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks for your interest and don't forget to Track us on ModDB and like us on Facebook!!

[rowan_moss]

Environment Artist position filled.

New UI Artist position open.

[ironbelly]

Probably the best new recruitment thread I've seen all year. You guys really seem to have your **** together and a rock solid team.. All the best and if you need any help or have any questions in regards to management or running a team just fire me off a PM and I'd be thrilled to take a look at your operations and give you some advice

[rowan_moss]

Probably the best new recruitment thread I've seen all year. You guys really seem to have your **** together and a rock solid team.. All the best and if you need any help or have any questions in regards to management or running a team just fire me off a PM and I'd be thrilled to take a look at your operations and give you some advice

Thanks for the kind words, it's appreciated. Got any advice as to where to find animators? They're few and far between!

[ironbelly]

We were lucky enough to find one through a friend of a team member. Youtube is a good place to start

[rowan_moss]

Fair enough!! Cheers dude

[rowan_moss]

Updated with new Illustrator Position!!

[rowan_moss]

Bumpage

[PrawnSkunk]

Hey, I'm interested in applying your photoshop-demon position.
I'm at school atm, so expect an e-mail from me in a few of hours with examples of my work.

http://www.prawnskunk.blogspot.com/

[rowan_moss]

Cheers, Look forward to it

[rowan_moss]

Looking for animators!!!!

[darthwilson]

The UDK forums isn't a great place to look. Try polycount technical forums, CG talk, tech artists.

I'm not sure how many animators will want to rig though. Good to see you 'Staffs' folks are doing a project. Shout if you's need a hand/advise with any of the technical art stuff

[rowan_moss]

Cheers Scott - we are looking elsewhere as well!

We're trying to keep our team reasonably small - hence no positions specifically for riggers etc...

We'd love to have another Staffs member on team working out some technical art stuff we need - don't hesitate to give us a shout if you want to get involved and if we have any issues I'll be sure to give you an ask in case you have any quick solutions!

[darthwilson]

Small!? but you have a character and environment concept artists =D

I can't devote any full time at the moment as doing this masters degree but feel free to add me on skype or where ever you have your discussions and can advise on any of that techy jazz.. To be fair you have James Tan so you should be set!

[Solid Snake]

Ha ha, I'm still only one person.

[darthwilson]

Haha, even so.. you accomplished what I could not with the folks with Q.U.B.E! Would be great to work with you though!

P.S
Nice job on the recent Eat3D release by the way! I will be buying my copy soon!

[rowan_moss]

One person with 5 enormous brains!

I'll give you a shout if we're having issues

[rowan_moss]

Really looking for an animator, low-poly character has begun work!

[rowan_moss]

Updated with Video

[darthwilson]

I'd strongly advise not posting un-textured W.I.Ps.. Get solid pieces finished then tease the hell out of your audience!

Still no animator.

[rowan_moss]

I just felt the sculpt was so strong, I had to put it out there :P

Still no animator unfortunately - when we've got the low poly fully rigged we may have more luck

[fragfest2012]

Well, I advise you do post good un-textured WIP shots, they are a start right?

[rowan_moss]

Heh, well there are two sides to it I guess - leaving it till assets are finalized is a bit more professional, but at the same time, we are trying to get exposure in order to recruit an animator, to which the model is directly related.

[fragfest2012]

A rock and a hard place...

[Cait Sithz]

I see you have someone who graduated from my course in Salford University in your team,

Ive just graduated haha ^.^

I am a level designer

[rowan_moss]

I see you have someone who graduated from my course in Salford University in your team,

Ive just graduated haha ^.^

I am a level designer

Games dev is a small world! This seems to happen all the time

[rowan_moss]

Updated Positions to include Weapon Artist + UI Artist. Looking forward to hearing back!!!

[KnightsOfMalta]

Hey I think the concept artwork is great and I like the feel of this project, where are your team members based (apart from James Tan)and age range, I have being using udk for a few years now working in small teams mostly and on my own projects, due to this I've had to learn many different trades to get things done(which I think is common place on here).

I have quite a lot of experience with rigging, skinning and animating characters and weapons in 3DS Max, importing and setting it all up in UDK, Animsets,Animtrees,physicsAssets etc...

I know how to use root motion correctly, also foot placement, skelcontrollers and how to set up custom animations in Unrealscript to make animations (I think) more believable.

I also use and know(in no particular order) zbrush, after effects, flash(actionscript,scaleform), cascade, photoshop, Unrealscript, materials and texture creation all in varying degrees of experience but I get things done, I have to admit I'm a little bit of a perfectionist at heart.

Sorry I know it's a bit of a list, but I thought its best to list everthing in case I can the project help in other areas.

I'll wait for a response as location is crucial to me.

[rowan_moss]

Hi KnightsOfMalta, sorry for the late response, hadn't realized you had posted!

Why not add me on Skype: rowan_moss and we can talk further!! Thanks for getting in touch.

[rowan_moss]

Update: Looking for an Environment Artist

[rowan_moss]

Bumping for environment artists!