Real-Time Artist - Digital Twins (All Levels)

About This Role

This role is for a Real-Time Artist to join the Exterior Digital Twin stream, bringing large-scale developments, masterplans, and entire destinations to life in Unreal Engine. The position combines artistry and technical problem-solving, refining architecture and landscapes one day, and creating imagery, films, and interactive experiences the next. The work expands the studio's architectural visualisation approach to complete worlds, focusing on visual quality and attention to detail across buildings, landscape, roads, vegetation, context, and atmosphere.

Responsibilities

• Transform architectural and geospatial information into interactive Digital Twins within Unreal Engine
• Turn complex source information into accurate, visually engaging, and well-optimised real-time environments
• Deliver projects within agreed timelines and budgets, collaborating closely with the Real-Time team and adapting smoothly to evolving designs and project requirements
• Use the Digital Twin to create beautiful imagery, films, and interactive experiences, applying strong lighting, composition, and atmosphere to bring each project to life

Requirements

• Experience with Unreal Engine and a good understanding of real-time rendering, scene construction, and optimisation
• Proficiency in Autodesk 3ds Max or a comparable 3D package, with a solid understanding of modelling, materials, UVs, and asset preparation
• Experience in architectural visualisation is highly valuable
• A strong sense of scale, composition, lighting, materials, and atmosphere, particularly across exterior architecture, landscape, or masterplan environments
• An interest in understanding how complex scenes work, identifying problems, and developing more efficient ways of doing things
• The ability to interpret architectural information and maintain spatial and visual consistency across a large environment
• Comfort working with evolving designs, varied source data, and projects that may move between early design, marketing, and sales
• The ability to explain problems clearly, self-check your work, and collaborate with both creative and technical team members

Benefits

• Mental Health & Wellbeing support through Ignite
• Great learning & development opportunities
• Fun and collaborative office environment in Freemans Bay
• Long service leave policy (one extra day of leave for every year of service)
• Monthly health and wellness allowance
• Remote working policy
• Regular team events and social activities
• Dog friendly office

Important Details

• Work format: primarily office-based in Auckland, New Zealand, with flexibility for some hybrid work