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 Environment Artists, ranging from entry level to experienced seniors, to join our team building some of the best-looking environments and props 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, plus have the technical skills to bring their work to life in Unreal Engine 4. 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
• Taking basic game designs and concept art, utilizing Unreal Engine, and bringing new points of interest to life on our BR island, by collaborating with a variety of stakeholders, as an environment art point of contact
• As an environment art point of contact, you will work closely with Leads and Production to ensure a high-quality delivery of work through tasking and prioritizing deliverables, driving creative conversation with your level design partner, and maintaining clear and open lines of communication
• Working in pre-production by contributing to ideation, building prototypes for both environmental sets and environmental gameplay needs - helping to ensure team success throughout the upcoming production cycle
• Building and texturing assets, namely focused on architectural and thematic sets, that Level Design will use to dress the environments, as a main point of contact throughout the production cycle
• Being an expert in 3D asset creation in DCC tools, such as 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, ZBrush. Strong knowledge of baking and texturing tools, such as Marmoset, Substance Painter and Designer, in order to develop assets in a high-to-low poly baking process, utilizing tileable textures, trim sheets, unique unwraps, and displacement map creation
• Strong understanding of performance restraints, and developing for multiple platforms
• Providing mentorship to other Environment Artists, and making the team around them stronger through individual guidance, tutorial and documentation creation, and leading by example through setting and raising our high bar of quality and timeliness

What we're looking for
• Bachelor of Arts degree from an accredited university in the US, or its foreign equivalent in Game Art, Digital Arts, Interactive Media, or related degree
• At minimum, 5 years of professional experience in the video game industry building environments and assets for shipped titles
• At minimum, 3 shipped titles which exhibit AAA game quality art
• Online portfolio of previous professional and personal work
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA, NYC, & WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren't limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic's generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

New York City Base Pay Range

$176,262 — $258,518 USD

California Base Pay Range

$155,111 — $227,495 USD

Washington Base Pay Range

$141,010 — $206,814 USD

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-g355e5-18-118-93-209-42 in your application.