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Environment Artist
2 years ago
Overview
Bethesda Game Studios Austin is looking an Environment Artist to join our family in creating AAA games for PC and next-generation console systems. We are looking for a talented artist with a versatile skillset; prop asset creation, architecture asset creation, world building, story-telling, and optimization.
Responsibilities
- Create props, textures, and architectural assets for world building
- Create organic tile-able textures, trees, and foliage for landscape environments
- Tell stories through environment world building within the Creation Kit
- Create realistic spaces through world building in the Creation Kit
- Optimize environment art and world building to fit within performance metrics
Qualifications
- Experience in the creation of next gen game ready assets; high poly, low poly, baking, texturing, exporting, and bringing the asset into the game engine
- Experience in the creation of world assets, including trees, rocks, and foliage required to populate open world games
- Proficiency in 3ds Max, ZBrush, and Painter
- Full understanding of working in a PBR system
- Able to work from photo reference or concept art when available
- Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Passion for high-quality graphics and creating story with their work
- Self-motivated, driven, and able to manage workload independently under time constraints
- Must submit an online portfolio and be open to completing an art test
Preferred Skills
- Experience with various game engines - Creation Kit a plus
- Understanding of the creation of modular systems, trim sheets, texture reuse, for optimal world building and asset creation
- Ability to leverage existing assets to create new or variations of similar assets
- Strong knowledge of technical game art theory (texel density, polycount, optimization) and traditional art theory (function, form, shape, proportions, color, etc.)
- Able to work under tight deadlines and must understand how to utilize time where it is most visually important
- Familiarity with BGS games
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