Position: Unreal Artist (Immersive / Experiential)
Location: Hybrid / Remote - UK / EU
Employment Type: Fixed-Term Contract / Freelance
About the Role
We are seeking a talented Unreal Artist with experience delivering immersive and experiential projects using Unreal Engine. This is an exciting opportunity to create engaging real-time experiences for live events, brand activations, museums, visitor attractions, themed entertainment, virtual production, XR, and interactive installations.
As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will design, build and optimise high-quality real-time environments, interactive content, and cinematic experiences that captivate audiences. You will collaborate with Creative Directors, Experience Designers, Technical Artists, Developers, Producers and Creative Technologists to bring ambitious concepts to life.
The ideal candidate combines strong artistic ability with technical expertise and understands how to create visually compelling experiences that perform reliably across a range of real-time platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Create visually stunning real-time experiences using Unreal Engine.
- Build immersive environments, interactive scenes and experiential content for installations, live events and branded experiences.
- Develop high-quality lighting, materials, shaders and visual effects.
- Assemble and optimise 3D assets from internal teams and external vendors.
- Create cinematic sequences using Unreal Engine Sequencer.
- Implement interactive functionality alongside Blueprint Developers and Creative Technologists.
- Optimise scenes to achieve stable frame rates across target hardware platforms.
- Collaborate with Designers to translate concepts into engaging interactive experiences.
- Support prototype development during pitches and client presentations.
- Work closely with Technical Artists to improve workflows and production pipelines.
- Ensure projects meet artistic direction, technical requirements and production deadlines.
- Troubleshoot rendering, optimisation and integration challenges.
- Maintain organised project structures and documentation.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Professional experience creating content using Unreal Engine.
- Experience delivering immersive, experiential, interactive or real-time projects.
- Experience building high-quality real-time environments.
- Experience creating materials using Unreal's Material Editor.
- Strong Blueprint knowledge for basic interactive functionality.
- Experience optimising real-time content for performance.
- Ability to work collaboratively across creative and technical disciplines.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills.
Desirable Experience
Experience with one or more of the following:
- XR (VR, AR or Mixed Reality)
- Virtual Production
- Live Events
- Projection Mapping
- LED Volume production
- Theme Park attractions
- Interactive installations
Software Knowledge
Essential
- Unreal Engine 5
- Houdini
- Blueprint
- Houdini
- Nuke
What You'll Help Deliver
As an Unreal Artist, you'll help create memorable immersive experiences that blend storytelling, technology and design. From interactive exhibitions and large-scale brand activations to virtual production and experiential marketing campaigns, your work will shape engaging real-time experiences that connect audiences with innovative content.
Nice to Have Portfolio
Applicants are encouraged to include examples demonstrating:
- Unreal Engine environments, Interactive experiences, Immersive installations, Virtual production work, Experiential marketing projects, Cinematic sequences, Optimised real-time scenes
- XR or mixed reality projects
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is an artist with a passion for creating immersive, interactive experiences that blur the line between physical and digital worlds. They possess a strong understanding of Unreal Engine's real-time capabilities, can balance visual quality with technical performance and problem solving, and thrive in collaborative environments where creativity, innovation, and technology come together to deliver unforgettable audience experiences.
