Environment Artist
Environment Artist
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Job Description
WHAT MAKES US EPIC
At the core of Epics success are talented passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative welcoming and creative environment. Whether its building awardwinning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences were always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. Were constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
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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 highly talented and creative Environment Artist to join our team in building some of the best looking architecture and POIs in Fortnite. Applicants will need to demonstrate a strong artistic ability bringing with them a strong understanding of form function detail the skill to interpret concept art and the technical skills to bring their work to life in Unreal Engine 5. Artists are required to be versatile with the ability to build both organic and hard surface assets. Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of worldclass environment character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
In this role you will
- Utilize UE5 bring game designs and concept art to life by creating new points of interest (POIs) for our Battle Royale Island; collaborating with a variety of stakeholders including Level Design Tech Art and FX
- As an Environment Artist you will work closely with Leads Production and the POI owner to ensure the highquality delivery of work through tasking and prioritizing deliverables driving creative conversation with level design and maintaining clear and open lines of communication
- Build and texture architectural and thematic sets that Level Design will use to dress the environments acting as a point of contact throughout the production cycle
- Be an expert in modular architecture kit creation with DCC tools such as 3DS Max Maya Blender and ZBrush
- Use your strong knowledge of baking and texturing with tools such as Marmoset Substance Painter and Designer to develop architecture in a hightolow poly baking process. This will involve utilizing tileable textures trim sheets unique unwraps and displacement map creation
- Bring your knowledge and understanding of performance constraints and your experience with developing across multiple platforms
What were looking for
- Required: An online portfolio of previous professional and personal work (please provide any needed passwords on your resume)
- Bachelor of Arts degree from an accredited university in the U.S. or its foreign equivalent in Game Art Digital Arts Interactive Media or other related degree
- At minimum 3 years of professional experience in the video game industry building architecture and working on POIs for shipped titles
- At minimum 1 shipped title that exhibits AAA gamequality art
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
EPIC JOB EPIC BENEFITS EPIC LIFE
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical Dental a Vision HRA Long Term Disability Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental wellbeing program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and companywide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4500 employees globally. For over 25 years weve been making awardwinning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epics awardwinning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build highfidelity interactive experiences for PC console mobile and VR it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment automotive and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games we strive to build teams of worldclass talent.
Like what you hear Come be a part of something Epic!
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.
Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e. a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.
Employment Type
Full Time
