Senior Texture Artist

1 Month ago • 4-8 Years • Concept Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games seeks a Senior Texture Artist for Fortnite. Responsibilities include creating high-quality textures and materials for gameplay, cinematics, and marketing, encompassing stylized and photorealistic work. The role involves collaborating with art directors and leads, providing and receiving feedback, working efficiently in a team, and contributing to pipeline refinements. Strong organic and hard-surface texturing skills, expertise in Substance Painter, and understanding of PBR lighting and UE4 are essential. The artist will create textures for characters and occasional assets like backpacks and pickaxes based on concept art or reference photos.
Must have:
  • Create appealing textures for characters and assets
  • Expert knowledge of Substance Painter or similar
  • Strong organic and hard-surface texturing skills
  • Understanding of PBR lighting and UE4
  • Collaborate with art directors and leads
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 a Senior Texture Artist to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role you will create top-quality textures and materials for use in gameplay, cinematics, and marketing material. You will primarily be working in the stylized realm, but should be comfortable doing photo-realistic work when needed.

In this role, you will

  • Create textures and materials for characters, on occasion will work on additional assets such as backpacks and pickaxes based on concept art or reference photos
  • Collaborate with the art director and the leads, be able to give and receive feedback
  • Work in a clean and efficient manner within a team environment
  • Be forward-thinking and have the ability to help the team refine our technical pipelines so we can continue to push the boundaries of real-time character performance

What we're looking for

  • Ability to create appealing textures for characters and other assets to bring life to the worlds we are creating in a wide range of styles
  • Possess Intimate knowledge of color theory, PBR lighting, and stylized texturing techniques
  • Expert Knowledge of Substance Painter or similar
  • Good understanding and the ability to create new materials in UE4 or similar
  • Ability to adapt to and innovate new styles and techniques
  • Strong organic texturing skills (human faces, clothing, believable creatures)
  • Strong hard-surface texturing skills (armor, weapons)

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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