Senior Environment Artist

Epic Games • Cary, NC

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About The Position

You'll join the Fortnite Ecosystem team as a Senior Environment Artist and help shape the future of Fortnite as a game platform. In this role, you'll have a high degree of competency envisioning and realizing all aspects of environment development in conjunction with vendor resources. You'll be comfortable wearing many hats and adapting to different art requirements as they arise ranging from modeling, sculpting, texturing, terrain and foliage, hard surface and organic art design, scene assembly and presentation skills. Alongside this, there is good opportunity for self driven agency to drive projects from ideation into realization, and work with the art director on high level vision.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as an environment artist
• A broad range of 3D art skills, and flexibility to adapt to different IP project styles
• An artistic eye, with the ability to ideate and design inspirational environment art
• High standard of communication, and relationship-building skills
• Comfortable with change, self managing tasks and adaptable to project scope
• Strong art fundamentals, ideally showing competency in other artistic areas

Nice To Haves

• UEFN experience a plus

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Art Director to scope, plan and deliver high end visuals
• Help design and drive initiative for new things that we can bring to users
• Drive environment initiatives with minimal direction/supervision
• Participate in content creation and implementation for the Fortnite Ecosystem
• Work with vendors to plan asset kits, test kits and build exemplary showcases of what can be achieved with released asset kits
• Engage with other teams in Epic to learn, adapt and grow the environment art capabilities of the team
• Be adaptable to assist with generalist modeling and texturing requirements where they arise e.g. gameplay items and hero props

Benefits

• Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match.
• We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
• Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks.
• We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees