FX Outsource Lead

1 Month ago • 6-8 Years • Concept Art

Job Summary

Job Description

The FX Outsource Lead at Epic Games supports and supervises creative content from outsourced partners. Reporting to art leads and the Outsource Manager, this role involves providing creative feedback, documenting pipelines, establishing quality standards, creating example assets, and managing communication with external vendors. Responsibilities include collecting references, creating block-outs and paintovers, packaging files, making artistic and technical decisions, debugging, optimizing, and ensuring assets are game-ready. The role requires close collaboration with internal teams and high-level leadership to meet project goals. Hands-on art production and bug support may also be necessary.
Must have:
  • AAA title shipping/optimization experience
  • Game art asset creation expertise (Houdini, Maya, 3ds Max, etc.)
  • Clear and concise communication (vendors & leadership)
  • Highly organized, self-driven, and team-oriented
Good to have:
  • Fluency in Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russian
Perks:
  • 100% employer-paid benefits (employee & dependents)
  • Supplemental medical, dental, vision, etc.
  • Robust mental well-being program
  • Retirement savings plan with employer match

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.

What You'll 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 front-line 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 hands-on 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 block-outs, 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 they're consistent and 'technically' game-ready
  • Clearly communicate feedback to outsourced partners, and ensure all feedback is implemented successfully
  • Communicate with high-level 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 hands-on 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 we're looking for

  • Experience with shipping and optimizing AAA titles across multiple platforms, or other large-scale 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 high-level leadership
  • Must be highly organized, self-driven, customer-focused, comfortable working in a high-pressure 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

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 well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

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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