Senior Character Texture 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

Epic Games is searching for a Senior Character Texture Artist to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role you will create top-quality textures and materials for use in gameplay, cinematics, and marketing material. You will primarily be working in the stylized realm, but should be comfortable doing photo-realistic work when needed.

In this role, you will
• Create textures and materials for characters, on occasion will work on additional assets such as backpacks and pickaxes based on concept art or reference photos
• Collaborate with the art director and the leads, be able to give and receive feedback
• Work in a clean and efficient manner within a team environment
• Be forward-thinking and have the ability to help the team refine our technical pipelines so we can continue to push the boundaries of real-time character performance

What we're looking for
• Ability to create appealing textures for characters and other assets to bring life to the worlds we are creating in a wide range of styles
• Possess Intimate knowledge of color theory, PBR lighting, and stylized texturing techniques
• Expert Knowledge of Substance Painter or similar
• Good understanding and the ability to create new materials in UE4 or similar
• Ability to adapt to and innovate new styles and techniques
• Strong organic texturing skills (human faces, clothing, believable creatures)
• Strong hard-surface texturing skills (armor, weapons)

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (excluding CA, NY, & WA).

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-rj32we-3-15-198-69-42 in your application.