Funday Games is looking for a Lead Artist!

We’re looking for a versatile and skilled Lead Artist to join one of our amazing teams working on a globally recognized IP. If you’re an experienced artist who feels confident setting and maintaining the art direction for a project, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing:
Things are moving fast at Funday, and we’re on the lookout for a Lead Artist to become a key part of our dedicated team – creating high-quality UI assets and props for a world-renowned IP in collaboration with an amazing partner. As Lead Artist, you’ll be involved throughout the entire game development process – from pre-production through final production and beyond launch. This will require you to not only have a confident technical and disciplinary foundation, but also to have some experience developing games. As a Lead Artist at Funday, your job will include tasks such as:

• Creating original 3D content (with the ability to work with 2D as well), ranging from simple assets to full-fledged environments

• Helping develop the visual style and overall direction of the game

• Modeling, sculpting, and texturing stylized environment assets, props, and characters

• Working with rigging, shading, and lighting

• Implementing, configuring, and improving your work directly in Unity

• Turning vague ideas into concrete concepts to help align the team on the game’s direction

• Gathering and communicating feedback clearly to the art team

• Collaborate with team members of other disciplines to make needed adjustments to the production pipeline and art assets.

Who we’re looking for:

We are looking for an artist who is eager to work with games (primarily PC/console) and who has experience and a proven track record for doing so. You:

• Are an experienced artist with at least 3+ years in the industry

• Have experience as Lead Artist or similarly relevant experience setting direction, communicating, reviewing, orchestrating, etc.

• Have a strong artistic vision, a keen eye for graphic design are comfortable with setting and maintaining the art direction for a project

• Have a strong portfolio that showcases your work with concepting, 3D modeling, sculpting and texturing

• Have a strong sense of design, scene composition and visual storytelling, with a good eye for lighting, color and detail

• Have expertise in Blender with strong props/environment 3D modeling skills

• Are proficient in texturing using the Substance suite of applications

• Have solid experience with UI, including asset creation and setup

• Are proficient with rigging, have an understanding of animation and the more technical aspects of shader work.

• Have Unity engine expertise (specifically URP), particularly for PC and consoles

• Are technically adaptable and comfortable working with new tools and software

• Have experience working in cross-disciplinary teams and alongside other artists and stakeholders

• It’s a bonus if you’re used to VFX and working with VFX graph in Unity

On a more personal level, you are:

• A team player who believes that collaboration breeds excellence

• Passionate about game development and crafting engaging visual experiences

• An effective communicator who can work seamlessly with various disciplines

• Striving for excellence in all aspects of your work

• Adaptable and flexible, thriving in a fast-paced creative environment

• Structured and systematic, while maintaining an agile workflow

• Comfortable working in an agile development environment

What we offer:

We offer you a full time job starting around September 1st with lots of opportunities for taking on responsibility and challenges in a company where two days aren’t the same. At Funday, we have a hybrid setup which makes it possible to work from home. We offer pension, health insurance and six weeks of paid holiday - making sure that you have time off to recharge. Besides covering simple needs like great lunch, fruit, snacks and loads of coffee, we also offer a fun and creative work environment with the most awesome people.

Who we are:

Funday Games is an experienced games studio based in the heart of Aarhus trusted by partners like Ghost Ship Games, SYBO Games, Apple and many more. We are 49 digital savvy people specialised in games, engagement and digital experiences.

Our four core values — think big, stay curious, have fun, and be kind — are at the heart of who we are at Funday. They shape both our strategic direction and our daily interactions at the office. That’s why it’s important for us to find a new colleague who not only brings strong skills, but who also connects with these values and wants to help us nurture them in everything we do.

At Funday, we go to work to produce the greatest games of the highest possible quality - always with our players in the driver's seat. But that’s only half the reason. We go to work to have fun. A lot of fun so if you like informal environments filled with creative and technical expertise - and where slippers and Star Wars t-shirts are much more common than suits and ties, you’ll fit right in.

Finally, if you can slightly see yourself in this role – we’d love to hear from you.
You don’t need to tick every single box. At Funday, we care deeply about building diverse, inclusive teams where different perspectives and backgrounds are valued and welcomed.

So don’t hesitate – send us your application, even if you’re not sure you’re “exactly right.” You just might be the person we didn’t know we needed yet 💛

Apply for the position

Send your application and CV to joinus@fundaygames.dk

Application deadline: We’re ready to wait for the right match (but we hope to hear from the right match soon)

Start date: 1st of September

Pay: Based on qualifications.

Location: Aarhus / remote

Process: If we think you might be a good match, we’ll send you a small task. It’s simply to get a feel for how you approach problems and how you work.

When you’ll hear back from us: We’re on holiday from 14th of July until 4th of August - so you might have to wait a bit. But fear not, we promise we won't forget about you.