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Environment Artist

Work Location: Redmond, WA

Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

The creators of the top selling and critically acclaimed AAA Simulation Racing game franchise are seeking an experienced Environment Artist with an eye for detail and a passion for creating stunning photorealistic environments to join our team. In this role, you will use your talents to support our external art teams in the creation of large-scale environments and game-ready assets. You will help review and refine assets to ensure content meets the visual goals of the project. The ideal candidate has a strong artistic background and is a great team collaborator with great communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Environment Leadership and peers to understand and communicate the content goals of to our external teams

• Provide quality control across a variety of assets with concise feedback
• Track assets throughout all stages of production
• Clearly communicate production challenges to Environment Leadership as appropriate
• Create asset specs and documentation detailing best practices for external art production based on project needs
• Support Environment Leadership in making improvements to content pipelines

• Collaborate with internal artists to validate art asset delivery and provide production support
• Create high quality models, materials, and prototypes as needed

Keywords provides a competitive compensation package, good benefits and a casual, fun, productive and supportive working environment. We empower people to perform to the best of their ability with our “can do” attitude. We appreciate and embrace flexibility and learn at every opportunity to grow ourselves through experience, training and tackling new challenges. This is what makes us Keywordian

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with at least 1 shipped title on console or PC
• A strong visual and technical understanding of 3D modeling, texturing, and level creation
• Proficiency with 3DSMax and/or equivalent software
• An eagerness to learn and teach new tools and processes
• Strong communication and time management skills

• A portfolio demonstrating high-quality realistic modeling and texturing
• A passion for art, innovation, technology.

Benefits

At KeyWords we provide all our contingent workforce with:

• Paid Time Off (including sick days and holidays)
• 401k (3% matching)
• Medical, Dental and Vision benefits