Senior Environment Artist

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Concept Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games seeks a Senior Environment Artist to build high-quality environments and props in Fortnite. Responsibilities include translating game designs and concept art into in-game assets using Unreal Engine, collaborating with stakeholders, ensuring high-quality delivery, contributing to pre-production ideation, building prototypes, and creating architectural and thematic sets. The role requires expertise in 3D asset creation (3DS Max, Maya, Blender, ZBrush), texturing (Substance Painter, Designer, Marmoset), understanding performance restraints across multiple platforms, and mentoring junior artists. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of professional experience in AAA game development and a strong online portfolio showcasing their skills.
Must have:
  • 5+ years AAA game environment art experience
  • Proficient in Unreal Engine, 3DS Max, Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter
  • Expert in high-poly/low-poly workflow, texturing, baking
  • Strong understanding of game optimization and performance
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision
  • Long-term disability, life insurance, 401k match
  • Mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years

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 highly talented and creative Environment Artists, ranging from entry level to experienced seniors, to join our team building some of the best-looking environments and props 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, plus have the technical skills to bring their work to life in Unreal Engine 4. Artists are required to be versatile and build ideally both organic and hard surface assets. Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

In this role, you will

  • Taking basic game designs and concept art, utilizing Unreal Engine, and bringing new points of interest to life on our BR island, by collaborating with a variety of stakeholders, as an environment art point of contact
  • As an environment art point of contact, you will work closely with Leads and Production to ensure a high-quality delivery of work through tasking and prioritizing deliverables, driving creative conversation with your level design partner, and maintaining clear and open lines of communication
  • Working in pre-production by contributing to ideation, building prototypes for both environmental sets and environmental gameplay needs - helping to ensure team success throughout the upcoming production cycle
  • Building and texturing assets, namely focused on architectural and thematic sets, that Level Design will use to dress the environments, as a main point of contact throughout the production cycle
  • Being an expert in 3D asset creation in DCC tools, such as 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, ZBrush. Strong knowledge of baking and texturing tools, such as Marmoset, Substance Painter and Designer, in order to develop assets in a high-to-low poly baking process, utilizing tileable textures, trim sheets, unique unwraps, and displacement map creation
  • Strong understanding of performance restraints, and developing for multiple platforms
  • Providing mentorship to other Environment Artists, and making the team around them stronger through individual guidance, tutorial and documentation creation, and leading by example through setting and raising our high bar of quality and timeliness

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor of Arts degree from an accredited university in the U.S., or its foreign equivalent in Game Art, Digital Arts, Interactive Media, or related degree
  • At minimum, 5 years of professional experience in the video game industry building environments and assets for shipped titles
  • At minimum, 3 shipped titles which exhibit AAA game quality art
  • Online portfolio of previous professional and personal work
  • 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 well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide 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 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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Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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