Environment Artist

Job Description

• The artist must balance direct asset creation with oversight, feedback, and technical validation of large volumes of outsourced content.
• Expected to interface frequently with client stakeholders, ensuring vendor deliverables meet fidelity, style, and performance requirements. Must be proactive in identifying risks with scale, LODs, or optimization, and escalate/solve issues early.
• Requires mastery of modern environment workflows (modular kits, PBR pipelines, procedural texturing). Comfort in reviewing work in-engine, profiling for performance, and troubleshooting cross-discipline integration is critical.
• Strong communication is required: able to provide clear, actionable feedback to vendors, while collaborating internally with Design, Tech Art, and Engineering.
• Needs to thrive in client’s vendor-heavy environment art pipeline, where efficiency and consistency across massive asset libraries are key. Must adapt legacy environments into modern standards while maintaining artistic integrity.
• Should be an avid player of melee action games, understanding how environment readability, scale, and composition support combat design, traversal, and puzzles.

Responsibilities: Partner collaboration with external vendors; asset review and feedback; artistic guidance; technical oversight; documentation and style guides; cross-discipline collaboration; QA in-engine.

Qualifications

• A strong portfolio showcasing AAA quality level art done in engine (Unreal, Unity or Proprietary Engine).
• 3+ years environment art experience.
• Excellent knowledge of industry-standard software packages for modeling, high-poly sculpting (Maya, Max, ZBrush, Substance, Photoshop).
• Artistically interpret concepts or creatively push beyond an initial ideation.
• A solid understanding of traditional art skills along with foundational design competencies (shape, form, texture, value and color).
• Mastery of modular workflows.
• Understanding of real-time rendering, PBR, LODs.
• Skilled at balancing art quality and performance in the game engine.
• Advanced knowledge of current level art workflows and practices.
• Ability to adapt, and develop specific art style, techniques and workflows with minimum guidance.
• Ability to manage multiple partners/projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.