Environment Artist - AAA

Lost Boys Interactive is a rapidly growing AAA game development studio based in Madison, Wisconsin and Austin, Texas, providing top-tier development for our AAA partners as well as creating our own game projects. We have world-class projects, resources, and infrastructure, but our company’s success comes from the talented and passionate people who work together each day to produce great games together. 

We are currently looking for the next great artists to join our team and expand our capabilities. If you want to lend your artistic talents to beloved game franchises as well as our own IP in a human-first environment, read on! We can't wait to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing:

• Work closely with the Art Director to keep quality and style consistent across all projects.
• Create environments under art director's supervision.
• Collaborate with team members of other disciplines to meet milestone goals. 
• Work closely with production to define deliverables and communicate expectations to the team
• Assists in R&D efforts.
• Understanding of memory and performance limitations
• Troubleshoots technical and artistic issues. 
• You’ll work with an amazing team on top-tier AAA games!

Requirements

•  3+ years experience.
• Online portfolio displaying a variety of environments.
• Experience with UE4 Materials
• Abilities in a secondary area such as modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting
• Can effectively collaborate with game designers and programmers.
• Ability to receive feedback
• Expertise in Maya, 3DMax, Zbrush, Substance Painter, and Photoshop
• Strong understanding of game development processes
• Proficient in optimizing art assets
• Familiar with current art techniques and work pipelines
• Model, and texture environments based off conceptual designs
• Loves approaching hard problems with flexibility and creativity
• Strong cross-functional communications skills; verbal, written and visual.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Understanding of lighting in Unreal.
• Understanding of Photogrammetry
• Marvelous Designer experience

You’ll be delighted with our people, our culture, and the amazing games you’ll be working on. Come join our merry band and apply today!

Lost Boys Interactive LLC is an equal opportunity employer.