Senior Environment Artist
Description
Digital Extremes is pleased to announce the company’s first venture into the PC Free-to-Play market with WARFRAME, a sci-fi based third-person shooter. WARFRAME launched in open Beta to rave reviews in spring of 2013 and continues to build an extensive and loyal following.
Digital Extremes prides itself on providing a warm, inviting, creative work environment for its team and has recently been named as one of 'Canada's Top 100 Employers'. Competitive salaries, profit sharing, stock options, retirement matching, ample vacation and free daily homemade lunches are just a few of the many perks our employees enjoy. But all these perks aren't worth much if you're not working on exciting ambitious projects that get your creative juices flowing and that's where DE shines. So, join us in London, Ontario, the family-friendly Forest City and land of impressively affordable living to be a part of a passionate, devoted team of developing ninjas.
Responsibilities:
- Design, model, and texture awe inspiring high
quality 3D game worlds.
- Collaborate with Layout and Design departments
to create fun, functional, and memorable game worlds and levels.
- Ensure gameplay functionality and artistic
integrity.
- Create any aspect of a 3D game environment
including high quality modeling, texturing, and lighting of terrain,
architecture, world objects and collisions.
- Work closely with Art Director and Environment
Art Lead to meet and maintain visual targets of the project.
- Multitask effectively, prioritize competing
demands, and follow through on details.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years previous experience in the video game
industry.
- A portfolio that demonstrates excellent concept,
modeling and texturing.
- Strong lighting skills and experience creating
normal maps and applying shaders.
- Above average ability to model, texture, and
optimize props and assets for a state of the art next-gen game engine.
- Possess exemplary oral and written communication
skills
- Experience with Maya or Max, ZBrush or Mudbox,
and Photoshop.
- Experience with Painter highly beneficial.
- Have a genuine enthusiasm and interest in video
games.
Preferred Extras:
- Excellent understanding of efficient techniques
for game production.
- Working knowledge of the Evolution Engine.
- Traditional art background or experience.
- Strong Composition skills and an understanding
of Colour Theory.
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