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Senior/Lead Environment Artist

We are looking for a talented and broadly-experienced Environment Artist to join our San Mateo studio. You will collaborate closely with our Art Director – as well as work with a cross-discipline team – to develop the environment art style for an original game IP. The successful candidate will have a deep love for building 3D environments for our players to explore, and experience in leading a team to do the same.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with our Art Director to establish and push the visual target for a new game IP's environment art.
• Work in a cross-discipline team with game designers, engineers, and other artists to prototype and build the foundational building blocks of this new IP.
• Work with the team to conceive, visualize, and execute on environment art.
• Work collaboratively with the cross-discipline team to balance creative vision with production needs and technical considerations.
• Build individual art assets, and help others to elevate their work.

Requirements:

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in game art, including 5 in environments. Strong knowledge of modern level creation best practices.
• Experience creating stylized, non-photorealistic levels and 3D assets.
• Experience with engine and game performance and optimization.
• Familiarity with Maya, Photoshop. Zbrush and Substance Designer/Painter.
• Ability and willingness to tackle technical problems and quickly learn new tools and workflows.
• Experience giving direction and art feedback to other artists on craft.
• Strong communicator.

Preferred:

• Experience leading and managing an environment-focused art team.
• Interest/experience with generating procedural art/solutions.
• Experience creating environments in Unreal Engine 4.
• Is passionate about games, and enjoys playing as well as developing.
• Experience developing live, in-release products.
• Experience working in multiple phases of game development — early prototyping through launch through live service.