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Cinematic Environment Artist

What makes us Epic?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

Art at Epic

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.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic.

What you’ll do

Epic Games is searching for a highly talented and creative Environment Artist to join our Cinematic team building some of the best-looking environments and props on various projects in development ( Fortnite , Spyjinx, Battle Breakers , and various Special Projects). 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.

In this role, you will

• Need to exhibit good technical expertise in architectural layout, lighting, scene composition, and environmental FX polish (bloom, color adjust, fog, etc. ...)
• Have excellent composition and spatial skills
• Modeling and texturing experience is key
• Creative modeling that can take a rudimentary or unfinished concept and understand the goals of the design and model three dimensional assets from it
• Creating solid, high fidelity textures of any given surface is required
• Be equally proficient with both hard surface and organic modeling techniques
• 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

• Work in the style as dictated by the project, Art Director and Art Lead.
  

What we’re looking for

• Highly skilled in relevant software, 3DS Max, Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush, Substance, etc
• Solid communicator with an ability to work between disciplines
• Great texturing skills and experience with PBR & materials
• Ability to take 2D concept art to completion
• Ability to create functional, articulated mechanical models and rig them
• Ability to provide feedback to outsourcers
• You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.

Epic Job + Epic Benefits = Epic Life

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay for 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. We offer coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, AD&D and Life Insurance, 401k.

All Epic employees enjoy drinks, snacks, and lunches every day, free of charge - and we offer plenty of annual celebrations for employees and family members to show the love for our people. Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical - we think our people are pretty awesome!