Senior Environment Artist

Senior Environment Artist

Requirements

• An online portfolio of previous professional and personal work (please provide any needed passwords on your Resume)
• Bachelor of Arts degree from an accredited University in the U.S., or its foreign equivalent in Game Art, Digital Arts, Interactive Media, or other related degree
• At minimum, 5 years of professional experience in the video game industry building architecture and acting as a POI owner for shipped titles
• At minimum, 3 shipped titles that exhibit AAA game-quality art
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

Responsibilities

• Utilizing UE5, bring game designs and concept art to life by creating new points of interest (POIs) for our BR Island; collaborating with a variety of stakeholders as an Environment Art Point of Contact
• As an Environment Art Point of Contact, you will work closely with Leads and Production to ensure the high-quality delivery of work through tasking and prioritizing deliverables, driving creative conversation with level design, and maintaining clear and open lines of communication
• Work in pre-production by contributing to ideation and building prototypes for both environmental sets and environmental gameplay needs; helping to ensure team success throughout the upcoming production cycle
• Build and texture architectural and thematic sets that Level Design will use to dress the environments, acting as a main point of contact throughout the production cycle
• Be an expert in 3D POI creation with DCC tools, such as 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, and ZBrush
• Use your strong knowledge of baking and texturing with tools such as Marmoset, Substance Painter, and Designer, to develop architecture in a high-to-low poly baking process. This will involve utilizing tileable textures, trim sheets, unique unwraps, and displacement map creation
• Bring your knowledge and understanding of performance restraints and your experience with developing across multiple platforms
• Provide mentorship to other Environment Artists; making the team around you stronger through individual guidance, tutorials, documentation, and through leading by example as you maintain and raise Epic’s high-quality bar and timeliness

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.