Environment Artist

Job Description

ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character, and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

The Walt Disney Company and Epic Games are collaborating on an all-new games and entertainment universe.

In addition to being a world-class games experience, this new persistent universe will offer a multitude of opportunities for consumers to play, watch, and engage with content, characters, and stories from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar, and more.

Players, gamers, and fans of all kinds will be able to create their own stories and experiences, express their fandom in a distinctly Disney way, and share content with each other in ways that they love. Come join us in creating the future of interactive entertainment.

Epic Games is searching for highly talented and creative Environment Artists to join our team in building some of the best-looking environment assets and props for our collaboration with Disney. Applicants will need to demonstrate a strong artistic ability, bringing with them a solid understanding of form, function, detail, and the ability to interpret concept art, plus the technical skills to bring their work to life in Unreal Engine 5. Artists are required to be versatile and build ideally both organic and hard surface assets. Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character, and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

In this role, you will
• Model and texture a wide variety of props/assets
• Creatively model from rudimentary or unfinished concepts, showing an understanding of the goals of the design, to final, production-ready models
• Create solid, high-fidelity textures of any given surface
• Some environment layout in-engine, but primarily a DCC-driven role

What we're looking for
• Highly skilled in relevant software; 3DS Max, Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush, Substance, etc
• Solid communicator with the ability to work between disciplines
• A desire to work with complex and high-detail models
• Technical expertise in low poly modeling and baking to create mobile-friendly assets
• Great texturing skills and experience with PBR & materials
• Ability to take 2D concept art to completion
• Ability to provide feedback to outsourcers
• Complex, technical shader knowledge and background is a plus

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r7x5o8-3-133-139-187-42 in your application.