Senior Environment Artist

Epic Games • Cary, NC

2d • Remote

About The Position

Epic Games is looking for experienced Senior Environment Artists to help build several initiatives as part of our collaboration with Disney. Our Senior Environment Artists are highly talented, creative, and versatile individuals who build the aesthetically groundbreaking and technically advanced environments used in our games. In this role, you will work directly with a world-class art team to help create exciting and compelling environments and own points of interest that will invite the player to discover and explore.

Requirements

• At minimum, 5 years of professional experience in the video game industry building environments and assets for shipped titles
• At minimum, 3 shipped titles which exhibit AAA game quality art
• Online portfolio of previous professional and personal work
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Being an expert in 3D asset creation in DCC tools, such as 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, ZBrush.
• Strong knowledge of baking and texturing tools, such as Marmoset, Substance Painter and Designer, in order to develop assets in a high-to-low poly baking process, utilizing tileable textures, trim sheets, and unique unwraps, and displacement map creation
• Strong understanding of performance restraints, and developing for multiple platforms

Nice To Haves

• Working in pre-production by contributing to ideation, building prototypes for both environmental sets and environmental gameplay needs - helping to ensure team success throughout the upcoming production cycle

Responsibilities

• Taking basic game designs and concept art, utilizing Unreal Engine, and bringing new points of interest to life, by collaborating with a variety of stakeholders, as an environment art point of contact
• Working closely with Leads and Production to ensure a high-quality delivery of work through tasking and prioritizing deliverables, driving creative conversation with your level design partner, and maintaining clear and open lines of communication
• Building and texturing assets, namely focused on architectural and thematic sets, that Level Design will use to dress the environments
• Providing mentorship to other Environment Artists, and making the team around them stronger through individual guidance, tutorial and documentation creation, and leading by example through setting and raising our high bar of quality and timeliness

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match.
• Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
• Events and company-wide paid breaks.
• Unlimited PTO and sick time.
• Paid sabbatical for 7 years of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed