Character Artist - RuneScape Dragonwilds

Location: Cambridge, UK – This position offers flexible working options, including predominantly remote work. Applicants should be based (or willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our office to attend onsite as required.

Want to build the characters, creatures and gear that bring a stylized fantasy world to life?

As a Character Artist on RuneScape: Dragonwilds, you’ll create high-quality 3D character art across a wide variety of assets from player outfits and armour to weapons, creatures and other character-related props. This is a hands-on role for an artist who enjoys both craft and variety, and who can take assets from concept or base models through to polished, game-ready final assets.

What makes this opportunity stand out is the breadth of the work. Rather than focusing on a narrow slice of production, you’ll help shape a broad range of stylized character content that directly supports the look, feel and quality of the game

What you’ll be doing: 

• Create high-quality 3D character assets across creatures, humans, weapons and character-related props, helping shape the visual quality of the game
• Produce stylized assets using tools such as ZBrush, Maya, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag
• Implement assets into Unreal Engine, ensuring they are polished, performant and game-ready
• Apply strong understanding of anatomy, form, structure, texturing, lighting, perspective and stylization to deliver appealing final artwork
• Collaborate with Concept Artists, Animators and Rigging to ensure assets fit the game’s art style and work well in motion
• Work with Content Developers and QA to ensure assets are correctly integrated and meet in-game quality standards
• Partner with Tools Developers to troubleshoot and improve art pipelines and workflows
• Contribute to maintaining and elevating the game’s visual style by working closely with the wider Art Team, Lead Character Artist and Art Directors

What we’re looking for: 

• Professional games industry experience, including work on at least one released title
• Portfolio demonstrating strong sculpting and texturing skills in stylized character art created through a PBR pipeline
• Portfolio showing a strong understanding of human and creature anatomy, alongside hard surface work
• Strong understanding of art fundamentals, including light, shape, colour, form, silhouette and materials
• Proven working knowledge of Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter and Photoshop
• Experience creating and implementing character assets in Unreal Engine
• Demonstrable experience creating game-ready assets suitable for rigging, skinning and animation, with clean mesh flow, efficient UVs and textures built with PBR principles
• Good understanding of game development processes, with the ability to manage and prioritise work against deadlines

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus.
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
• Life Insurance.
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
  Flexible working hours.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more! 

About Jagex

We are Jagex: The RuneScape Company. Home to one of gaming’s most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years.

As we begin our 26th year, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: DragonWilds into Steam Early Access in 2025, representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. We remain focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape’s history. For more information, visit www.jagex.com.

Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, we are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and even a few dreamers, all united by a single mission to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own. We’re looking for people to join us who share our ambitions and values. We foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating experiences that inspire our communities.
Our values guide everything we do: We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving; We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; We are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs, and We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.

Join us. The next era of RuneScape and the next chapter of Jagex: The RuneScape Company starts now.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know when you’re invited to interview.