Senior Environment Artist
Senior Environment Artist
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Job Description
- The artist must balance direct asset creation with oversight feedback and technical validation of large volumes of outsourced content.
- Expected to interface frequently with client stakeholders ensuring vendor deliverables meet fidelity style and performance requirements. Must be proactive in identifying risks with scale LODs or optimization and escalate/solve issues early.
- Requires mastery of modern environment workflows (modular kits PBR pipelines procedural texturing). Comfort in reviewing work in-engine profiling for performance and troubleshooting cross-discipline integration is critical.
- Strong communication is required: able to provide clear actionable feedback to vendors while collaborating internally with Design Tech Art and Engineering.
- Needs to thrive in clients vendor-heavy environment art pipeline where efficiency and consistency across massive asset libraries are key. Must adapt legacy environments into modern standards while maintaining artistic integrity.
- Acts as a mentor: helps guide vendors and less-experienced artists instilling best practices in optimization naming conventions and data hygiene.
- Should be an avid player of melee action games understanding how environment readability scale and composition support combat design traversal and puzzles.
Responsibilities: Partner collaboration with external vendors; asset review and feedback; artistic guidance; technical oversight; documentation and style guides; cross-discipline collaboration; QA in-engine.
Qualifications :
- A strong portfolio showcasing AAA quality level art done in engine (Unreal Unity or Proprietary Engine).
- 5 years environment art experience (2 in vendor management).
- Excellent knowledge of industry-standard software packages for modeling high-poly sculpting (Maya Max ZBrush SubstancePhotoshop).
- Artistically interpret concepts or creatively push beyond an initial ideation.
- A solid understanding of traditional art skills along with foundational design competencies (shape form texture value and color).
- Mastery of modular workflows.
- Understanding of real-time rendering PBR LODs.
- Skilled at balancing art quality and performance in the game engine.
- Advanced knowledge of current level art workflows and practices.
- Ability to adapt and develop specific art style techniques and workflows with minimum guidance.
- Ability to manage multiple partners/projects.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
Additional:
- Client expects environment artists to serve as gatekeepers for fidelity performance not just asset builders.
- Must be comfortable with LOD creation optimization strategies and profiling vendor assets for runtime performance.
- Capable of supporting automation in environment assembly (procedural tools Houdini HDAs tessellation workflows).
- Able to bridge legacy PS2/PS3 era levels into modern PBR modular pipelines identifying when to rebuild vs re-use.
Additional Information :
What we offer:
- Benefit package 100% paid by PCF. Insurance company reimburses 100% of claims (Up to $500 per service a year as well as individual family coverage).
- Full Dental coverage including major dental and orthodontics.
- 4% RRSP matching before tax deductions 100% vested on day 1.
- Paid week off during Winter Holidays.
- 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days.
- Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions included in the plan for members and their dependents.
- A competitive salary and performance-based annual bonuses.
- Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment.
- Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Remote
Company Industry
Key Skills
- Python
- 3ds Max
- Anatomy Knowledge
- Computer Graphics
- Perforce
- Zbrush
- Unreal Engine
- Maya
- Adobe Photoshop
- Scripting
- Unity
- Color Theory
