Character Intern

1 Month ago • Upto 1 Years • Concept Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games' Fortnite team seeks a creative Character Intern for 2025. This role involves collaborating with veteran and emerging artists to directly contribute to Fortnite, creating engaging scenes and introducing new concepts, characters, and experiences. The intern will contribute ideas and collaborate on depicting character stories and events, taking players to new worlds. Opportunities include concept art (creating marketing features, key art, IP integrations, and in-game events) and 3D character art (creating real-time characters in UE5, working with MetaHumans, collaborating with multiple teams, and creating 3D characters and accessories).
Must have:
  • Concept art portfolio
  • Strong foundational art skills
  • Knowledge of Photoshop
  • 3D modeling/texturing skills (for Character Art Intern)
  • Unreal Engine experience (preferred)
  • Collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Storyboarding experience
  • Experience with Maya/3DSMax
  • Knowledge of Marmoset/Substance
  • Traditional drawing skills
  • Understanding of human anatomy

Job Details

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ART

What We Do

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

CHARACTER INTERN

What You'll Do

Epic Games Fortnite team is looking for a creative Character Intern to join them in 2025. In this talented team of veteran and emerging artists you’ll collaborate across teams and contribute directly to Fortnite! Joining this team means you’re motivated to create engaging scenes that introduce new concepts, characters or experiences to our audience of players.

Our goal is to give each new beat for Fortnite its first impression and keep our audience on their toes with what might be coming next. You’ll be asked to contribute ideas and collaborate with others in deciding how to depict the untold stories of our characters and the awesome events that take our players to new worlds. 

Potential Intern profiles we are seeking within Character art:

  • Concept Art Intern 
  • 3D Character Artist Intern

As a Concept Art Intern, you could:

  • Concept major marketing features for Fortnite including key art, IP integrations, and in-game events 
  • Create concepts or characters based on direction from the Art Director and game design team
  • Sketch ideas that can then be blocked out in Unreal Engine by the screenshots team

As a Character Art Intern you could:

  • Create, assemble and maintain state-of-the-art real-time characters in UE5
  • Work with Unreal Engine’s MetaHumans for real-time and linear cinematic content
  • Collaborate with multiple teams from character artists, to animators, to technical artists
  • Create 3D characters, enemies, and character accessories such as backpacks in ZBrush/Maya

What we’re looking for in a Concept Art Intern:

  • Concept art portfolio required with application
  • Strong foundational skills in composition, value, and dynamic posing 
  • Strong understanding of color theory and how color affects mood & focal points
  • Knowledge of Photoshop required
  • Knowledge of 3D programs like Unreal and Maya are a plus
  • Strong sense of storytelling through camera compositions 
  • Experience in storyboarding, previs and thumbnailing are also encouraged

What we’re looking for in a Character Art Intern:

  • Portfolio showcasing artistic and technical aptitude
  • Knowledge of character workflow including modeling, texturing, rigging and animation
  • Experience integrating characters in Unreal Engine
  • Passion for all aspects of character art creation
  • Skilled in 3D content creation programs like ZBrush, Maya/3DSMax
  • Knowledge of Marmoset, Substance and Unreal Engine is a plus
  • Skills in composition, value, and dynamic posing is a plus
  • Strong understanding of color theory and how color affects mood & focal points
  • Traditional drawing skills and knowledge of the human anatomy is a plus

This internship has a flexible start date in 2025. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship. For more information about Epic’s Early Career Program, visit . This is going to be Epic!

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, 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 world-class 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 .

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 .

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