FX Outsource Lead

ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of worldclass environment character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What Youll Do

Epic Games is searching for an experienced FX Outsourcing Lead to support and supervise creative content provided by outsourced partners. Reporting to the individual art lead(s) and working with the Outsource Manager the Outsource Lead will provide frontline creative feedback for work submitted to Epic for review. Though the role will be mainly supervisory the individual should be an experienced artist; having worked in game studio pipelines before with a solid handson art background demonstrated by their portfolio. The ideal candidate would be a talented artist who demonstrates concise clear communication skills and is able to execute a variety of daily tasks including; documenting existing pipelines collecting and/or creating a quality bar and technical example assets collecting photo references creating asset blockouts creating simple block out paintovers and finally packaging all files to send off to the external outsourced partners. Based on experience the candidate would be comfortable making artistic and technical decisions regarding construction of FX assets as well as debugging solving problems and optimizing.

In this role you will

• Work closely with the individual Epic Art Leads Outsource Manager(s) and other artists on the team to ensure assets have all the information they need before being sent out to outsourced partners
• Collect or generate detailed documentation video references and examples of art asset production procedures and engine requirements to support outsourced partners.
• If required make any needed fixes to assets received from external partners to ensure theyre consistent and technically gameready
• Clearly communicate feedback to outsourced partners and ensure all feedback is implemented successfully
• Communicate with highlevel Epic leadership in the event that goals are not being reached
• Partner with internal Art staff to ensure assets received from outsource partners are ingested into the pipeline and engine correctly
• When necessary execute handson art production deliver assets to external partners provide bug support and triage and facilitate any final polish on art assets that have been received by the outsourcing team

What were looking for

• Experience with shipping and optimizing AAA titles across multiple platforms or other largescale creative projects across film and tv
• Experience in game art asset creation across a variety of software packages including; Houdini Maya 3ds Max Photoshop Substance etc
• Must be a clear and concise communicator who is able to deliver complex creative feedback to external vendors and is very comfortable with speaking to highlevel leadership
• Must be highly organized selfdriven customerfocused comfortable working in a highpressure production environment and a great team player
• As an Outsourcing Lead fluency in a language other than English is a plus. Primarily Chinese German Spanish Italian or Russian

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but arent limited to) things such as skills and competencies qualifications knowledge and experience. In addition to base pay most employees are eligible to participate in Epics generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

EPIC JOB EPIC BENEFITS EPIC LIFE

We pay 100 for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical dental vision critical illness telemedicine Life and AD&D long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program) we also offer a robust mental wellbeing program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.