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Lead Environment Artist (Unannounced Project)

About Our Team

We’re a highly collaborative team of developers who are passionate about crafting beautiful and memorable player-focused experiences. We are innovators and problem solvers, and believe the best creations come from teams that can share their diverse perspectives and experiences within a culture of high creative agency.

Who We Are Looking For

We are seeking a passionate Lead Environment Artist with demonstrated experience in the full AAA asset production pipeline, from rapid prototyping of blockout meshes to the development and integration of highly polished, optimized game assets.

You will play a critical role in defining the look and feel of new biomes and environments by driving the creation of key botanical, landscape, and architectural assets, establishing visual and technical targets for internal and external environment teams alike. Your positive adaptable mindset, strong soft skills, and proactive attitude help to establish a supportive, healthy team culture where artists are inspired to do their best work.

As Lead Environment Artist, you will…

• Create AAA environment assets across a range of categories, working closely with the Art Director and Art team to establish visual targets for new areas and asset types.
• Contribute to Level Design prototyping efforts by generating R&D assets and evaluate play space for environmental storytelling and gameplay opportunities.
• Work with Tech Art, Level Design, and Engineering throughout development to ensure assets and proposed solutions are performant and work within engine/platform constraints.
• Proactively interface with leadership and peers to ensure strong communication is maintained and progress shared throughout development of cross-functional endeavors.
• Regularly review work from the Environment team and provide timely, constructive feedback to ensure assets are cohesive and consistently hit the artistic and technical quality bar established.
• Maintain the Environment team’s scope of work by delegating tasks, planning estimates, and ensuring tasks are kept on-track to being completed by established deadlines.
• Elevate the artistic and technical skills of the department by identifying opportunities for the Environment team to incorporate next-gen tools, workflows, and techniques.
• Work with key internal stakeholders to develop scalable next-gen environment asset pipelines and workflows for internal staff and external outsourcing partners.
• Create documentation of best practices for modern environment art creation.
• Advance the holistic vision of the game by regularly participating in team playtests and contributing your ideas and feedback to group discussions.

What This Role Requires

• Professional game industry experience as a Senior Artist or above.
• A portfolio of work demonstrating your technical and artistic skills across a range of realistic AAA environment assets like botanicals, terrain, landscape, props, and architecture.
• Experience designing and creating modular architectural sets.
• Expert knowledge of key artistic principles like color theory, form design, detail hierarchy, and spatial composition.
• Deep knowledge of modern content creation pipelines and techniques, including PBR texturing workflows and procedural content generation.
• Expertise with industry-standard software like Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Maya or 3DsMax, ZBrush, and Speedtree.
• Experience working in Unreal Engine 4+.
• A passion for self-learning, exploring new technologies and seeking out efficient, innovative solutions.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, the ability to lead a large scope of work, and the ability to work independently without requiring oversight
• An interest in mentoring others to further develop their artistic and technical skillsets.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to write clear documentation.

Nice To Have

• Professional experience in a creative leadership role
• Experience as a Worldbuilder on a shipped title.
• Familiarity with procedural approaches to level creation.
• Experience working with photogrammetry assets.
• Ability to work in multiple art styles.
• Familiarity working with traditional media.