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Senior Environment Artist - AAA Simulation Racing Game
2 years ago
Role Type: FTE
Pay Rate: $54+ per hour (roughly $112k+ per year equivalent)
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
The creators of the top selling and critically acclaimed AAA Simulation Racing game franchise are seeking an experienced Senior Environment Outsourcing 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 collaborate with our external art teams in the creation of large-scale environments and game-ready assets. You will help drive quality and accountability of external production to meet the visual goals of the project. The ideal candidate has a strong artistic background and is a strong collaborator who is willing to solve a variety of production challenges.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Environment Leadership and PMs to understand and communicate the visual goals of the project externally and maintain the consistency of this vision with outside vendors and teams
- Assist artists in the creation of assets and environment production
- Provide visual and technical feedback on environments throughout the stages of production
- Clearly communicate production challenges and provide guidance to artists
- Create documentation detailing best practices for all artists based on project needs
- Identify improvements in art pipelines to improve external vendor quality and streamline integration
- Collaborate and partner 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
- 5+ years of experience with shipped titles on console or PC
- Must have experience with outsourcing and high volume art production techniques
- A strong visual and technical understanding of 3D modeling, texturing, and level creation
- Proficiency with 3ds Max 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
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