Senior Environment Artist - Levels
Job Summary
Job Description
SkyBox Labs seeks a Senior Environment Artist to contribute to Destiny 2's immersive worlds. Collaborating with various teams, you'll build engine-driven environments, owning your space from concept to completion. This involves layout creation using organic and hard-surface elements, placement of pre-made assets, and ensuring optimal performance without compromising quality. Responsibilities include refining level layouts, composition, environmental storytelling, and collaborating with level designers to enhance player experience. The ideal candidate has extensive world-building experience, strong level art and design skills, proficiency in 3ds Max or Maya, excellent communication, and a problem-solving mindset.
Must have:
- Extensive world-building experience
- Strong level art & design sensibilities
- Expert proficiency in 3ds Max or Maya
- Excellent communication & collaboration
- Problem-solving skills
Good to have:
- Understanding of lighting, FX
- Asset modeling experience
- Familiarity with Perforce, Jira, Shotgrid
11 skills required
Job Details
Who is SkyBox Labs?
Recognized as one of BC's Top Employers (2024), SkyBox Labs is a game development studio that works on some of the world’s most iconic games. The studio is currently co-developing Halo Infinite, working on projects in the Minecraft universe, supporting the dev team at Bungie on Destiny, supporting development of Fallout 76, and working on original IP. As one of Canada’s fastest-growing game studios, since our inception in 2011, SkyBox Labs has evolved from a group of 8 people to a team of over 270+ Engineers, Artists, Animators, Designers, Producers, and more! Join us in our Burnaby studio, or have the opportunity to work remotely within Canada for certain designated projects.
Interested? Let’s talk about what we’re hiring for:
SkyBox Labs is looking for a Senior Environment Artist to join our team and contribute to the immersive worlds of Destiny 2. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with multiple teams of skilled and talented individuals to shape compelling game spaces. Your focus will be on engine-driven world-building, owning your space from ideation to the finished level, placing pre-made assets, and utilizing your creative power to bring vibrant environments to life.
If you’re passionate about crafting incredible worlds and want to play a key role in shaping the rich world of Destiny 2, we’d love to hear from you!
A Snapshot of Your Role:
- Work closely with designers, artists, and other disciplines to craft immersive spaces that align with gameplay and narrative needs
- Build world layouts using a mix of organic and hard surface elements
- Own your space from ideation all the way to fully realized, living environment
- Work directly in-engine to refine level layouts, composition, and environmental storytelling
- Optimize and problem-solve within a proprietary pipeline, ensuring performance goals are met without sacrificing quality
- Collaborate with level designers to ensure world layouts enhance the player experience
Sound Like You? Here’s What We’re Looking For:
- Extensive world-building experience in a game engine
- Strong level art and design sensibilities, with a track record of working alongside designers to build gameplay-ready spaces
- Expert proficiency in 3ds Max or Maya
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across teams
- Organized and adaptable, with strong time management skills
- Problem-solving mindset with the ability to learn new tools and workflows
- A portfolio showcasing environmental storytelling, creativity, and technical skill
- Understanding of lighting, FX, or other disciplines
- Asset modeling experience
- Familiarity with Perforce, Jira, and Shotgrid
Nice-to-Haves:
Our commitment to you:
SkyBox Labs is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to developing and maintaining a diverse workforce. You’ll join a collaborative, inclusive culture. One where we succeed together – across the desk and around Canada. Where like-minded people work naturally together to achieve great things (and games!).
Only candidates who reside in Canada or are willing to relocate will be considered for this role. Additionally, although we appreciate all interest, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
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About The Company
SkyBox Labs is a full-service game development studio based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Founded in 2011, we’ve developed titles alongside some of the world’s top publishers including Xbox Game Studios, Bungie, and Electronic Arts. The studio is currently co-developing Halo Infinite, working on projects in the Minecraft universe, supporting the dev team at Bungie on Destiny 2: Lightfall, and supporting development of Fallout 76.
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