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Environment Artist
3 years ago
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.
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What you’ll do
Epic Games/Quixel is searching for a highly talented and creative 3D Environment Artist to join the marketing team at Quixel and push the limits of visual fidelity in real time environments and props. 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 this role, you will
- Create low and high poly assets for environments and props; optimized for real-time with UV layouts for texturing and lightmap UVs
- Collaborate with the Creative Lead/marketing team to advance the state of real-time rendered technology, striving to create the highest possible visual fidelity and artistic innovation
- Work closely with designers and art leads to ensure that environments and assets match the quality bar and vision for Epic's games/tech demos
- Conduct research for reference material, participate in photo shoots, and concept phases
- Create promotional content for Quixel’s social feeds
What we’re looking for
- Portfolio pieces showing high-quality environments and props
- Ability to model clean seamless models from concept art
- Experience in the games or VFX industry with a few shipped titles and/or 10+ years experience as a 3D artist
- Strong aesthetic appreciation for composition, proportion, mass and volume, light, lighting and color.
- Strong understanding of PBR workflow, materials and lighting
- Experience working within a game engine and implementing 3D work into the engine
- Mastery of relevant software packages such as Maya, Photoshop and Substance
- You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
Nice to have skills
- Experience with Unreal Engine 4
- Experience with Zbrush
- Experience working with photogrammetry
- Experience with rendering software such as Redshift and Corona Renderer.
- Experience with Quixel's apps - Megascans, Briidge, and Mixer
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About Us
Epic Games spans across 12 countries with 32 studios and 1,800+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
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!
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.
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