Senior 3D Environment Artist

Description

We are seeking?a?Senior?3D?Environment Artist?to?join?our talented team, with team members based in New York City, Montréal (and some fully remote), working on our new action-RPG title.

The?right candidate for this position will?work?closely?with the Art and Design?leadership?to establish?an iconic, stylized look?for the next generation of consoles and PC.?You will?share our passion for thinking differently?about how games can look and?feel and?possess exceptional?ability to communicate?and demonstrate?new ideas.?You will?be?instrumental?in defining a?cohesive?visual?style?over?the entire project.? 

Responsibilities 

• Work with the team to create and populate a wide variety of environments.  
• Work with design?to support gameplay within the environments.? 
• Work with?engine and tools teams?to create new technical ideas and solutions.? 
• Work with?Art Director and Art Production manager to?plan and?schedule assets for outsourcing when needed.? 
• Participate in planning and critiquing of the project and collaborate on solutions to feedback.  
• Stay up to date on current trends and techniques of asset authoring. 

Qualifications 

• 3+ years of games industry experience. 
• Expert knowledge of the various components of an environment art pipeline, including terrain generation and navmesh, vegetation, UV and material authoring, LOD, collision mesh creation, post process and lighting.  
• Organic and hard surface skills with an excellent eye for proportions and consistency.  
• Knowledge of modular approaches and modular kit set organization and implementation. 
• Ability to optimize for memory and performance while maintaining visual fidelity. 
• Experience working in a game engine such as Unreal. 
• Able to reliably communicate and produce content in a self-disciplined remote work environment.  
• Authorized to work in either the US or Canada 

Bonus Points 

• Strong design and color theory principles a strong plus. 
• Ability to set up and animate simple environment objects like doors and fans in Unreal is a plus. 
• Knowledge of procedural asset generation with software like Houdini a plus.  

Benefits 

• Competitive salary 
• Among Industry leaders in PTO and work life balance 
• Flexible Work-From-Home options 
• Comprehensive family health coverage