Environment Artist
Position type: Regular Full-Time
Overview
Would you like access to the best tools and technology in the business to help take your already exceptional art skills to the next level? Work with a team that consistently ships multi-million unit selling games? Or maybe be a part of creating something Epic? If you answered yes to any of those questions we would like to talk to you about joining our team, where everything we do is Epic.
Epic Games, the award winning developer known for the Unreal Series of games, Gears of War, and the Unreal Engine, is searching for an experienced Environment Artist.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be constructing aesthetically groundbreaking and technically advanced environments that match Epic’s engrossing gameplay experiences. You should have a combination of strong creative/visual aesthetics and technical knowledge and the ability to realize a 3d world using existing environment assets along with your own creations. You should be an expert in every aspect of the environmental creation pipeline - from early planning and asset modeling, to level decoration, lighting, optimization and everything in-between. You are able to think outside the box to come up with techniques that work better, smarter or faster.
Qualifications
- Experience crafting stunning visuals for next generation game environments
- Experience in all aspects of creating environmental game content inside Maya/Max
- Experience with various software packages including Photoshop, Zbrush/Mudbox
- Experience working with Unreal Engine 3 a plus
Expected Tasks
Environment layout, aesthetics and polish
- Need to exhibit good color theory and technical expertise in architectural layout, lighting, scene composition, and environmental FX polish (bloom, color adjust, fog, etc. ...)
- Proficiency in three dimensional layout, and spatial composition
Content creation
- Modeling and texturing experience is key
- Creative modeling that can take a rudimentary or unfinished concept and understand the gestalt of the design and model three dimensional assets from it
- Designing and creating new assets that inspire is a must
- Creating solid, high fidelity textures of any given surface is required
- An expertise in architectural and organic modeling is paramount
Shader Creation
- Creating shaders for environment assets, volumetrics, decals, ambient effects, etc.
- Complex, technical shader knowledge and background is a plus
- Optimization
- Use diagnostic tools to examine content and identify areas for improvement
- Know when and where to cut and how to most effectively optimize meshes and materials, without compromising visual quality