Environments Artist

Purpose of the job:

The Environments Artist role is to create or recreate a fully synthetic environment with a team that works and operates within a big visual effects pipeline, using tools and techniques to optimize and streamline the generated content.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:

• Thorough understanding of a 3D and 2.5D (projection) pipeline
• Experience with basic modeling, uv-ing, texturing and lighting
• Experience with basic compositing
• Preferably technical knowledge of lenses and camera body's (filmback, distortion, etc).
• Being able to use photographic content from different media appropriately in set re-creation (stills, HDRI etc)
• Experience in working in a world-scale environment versus single shots
• Demonstrates the ability to be proactive and anticipate the needs of dependent departments
• Translate concept art into photorealistic environments

Qualifications:

• General experience with Maya, Photoshop, Nuke, and Vray
• Experience in games environments a plus
• Working with on-set assets
• Creating postviz for sequences

Working Conditions and Environment/Physical Demands: 

• Office working environment
• Hours for this position are based on normal working hours but will require extra hours pending production needs
• Walking/bending/sitting

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work.  This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities associated with it.  Digital Domain 3.0, Inc management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs.