Senior 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
Epic Games is searching for highly talented and creative Senior Environment Artists to join our team in building some of the best-looking architecture and POIs in Fortnite. Applicants will need to demonstrate a strong artistic ability, bringing with them a strong understanding of form, function, detail, the skill to interpret concept art, and the technical skills to bring their work to life in Unreal Engine 5. Artists are required to be versatile with the ability to build 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
• Utilizing UE5, bring game designs and concept art to life by creating new points of interest (POIs) for our BR Island; collaborating with a variety of stakeholders as an Environment Art POI
• As an Environment Art POI, you will work closely with Leads and Production to ensure the high-quality delivery of work through tasking and prioritizing deliverables, driving creative conversation with level design, and maintaining clear and open lines of communication
• Work in pre-production by contributing to ideation and building prototypes for both environmental sets and environmental gameplay needs; helping to ensure team success throughout the upcoming production cycle
• Build and texture architectural and thematic sets that Level Design will use to dress the environments, acting as a main point of contact throughout the production cycle
• Be an expert in 3D POI creation with DCC tools, such as 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, and ZBrush
• Use your strong knowledge of baking and texturing with tools such as Marmoset, Substance Painter, and Designer, to develop architecture in a high-to-low poly baking process. This will involve utilizing tileable textures, trim sheets, unique unwraps, and displacement map creation
• Bring your knowledge and understanding of performance restraints and your experience with developing across multiple platforms
• Provide mentorship to other Environment Artists; making the team around you stronger through individual guidance, tutorials, documentation, and through leading by example as you maintain and raise Epic's high-quality bar and timeliness
What we're looking for
• Required: An online portfolio of previous professional and personal work (please provide any needed passwords on your Resume)
• Bachelor of Arts degree from an accredited University in the US, or its foreign equivalent in Game Art, Digital Arts, Interactive Media, or other related degree
• At minimum, 5 years of professional experience in the video game industry building architecture and acting as a POI owner for shipped titles
• At minimum, 3 shipped titles that exhibit AAA game-quality art
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g355e5-3-144-137-236-42 in your application.