Senior Environment Artist

Description

• Create highly detailed, game-ready 3D environments that align with the artistic vision of the project, ensuring visual consistency and a cohesive world.
• Build immersive and engaging locations, from natural landscapes to complex architectural spaces, using a mix of modelling, texturing, and material creation.
• Optimise assets and environments for performance without sacrificing quality, ensuring environments run efficiently in real-time game engines.
• Collaborate with the tech art and engineering teams to resolve any performance issues related to the environment art.

• Create and apply textures, shaders, and materials that bring environments to life, ensuring that all assets are of a high-quality standard and integrate seamlessly into the game engine.
• Work with procedural texturing techniques to add detail and depth to environments.

• Collaborate closely with designers and technical artists to ensure that the environments support both gameplay and the creative vision of the game.
• Actively communicate with other team members to gather feedback and iterate on environments based on direction from leads and the art director.
• Identify and solve creative and technical challenges to deliver the best possible environments. This includes addressing technical constraints, lighting issues, and world-building complexities.

• Follow and refine the environment art pipeline, using the latest tools and workflows to maximise efficiency and output quality.
• Contribute to the development of tools, techniques, and workflows that streamline environment creation and integration.
• Work with modular systems to create flexible environment pieces that can be reused throughout the game, ensuring both efficiency and visual consistency.

• Contribute to the creation of atmosphere, mood, and storytelling through environment art, ensuring that every location is visually engaging and enhances the player experience.
• Add final polish to environments, ensuring they meet the highest quality standards

• 3+ years of experience as an environment artist in the video game industry, with at least 2 shipped titles, preferably in AAA games.
• Strong portfolio showcasing expertise in creating high-quality environments, including natural landscapes, architectural spaces, and lighting setups Proficiency in industry-standard 3D modelling software such as Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender.
• Extensive experience with ZBrush for sculpting, and Substance Painter and Designer for texturing and material creation.
• Strong understanding of real-time rendering, PBR (Physically Based Rendering), and optimisation techniques for game engines, particularly Unreal Engine or Unity.
• In-depth knowledge of composition, lighting, form, and colour theory, with a passion for crafting believable game environments.
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to create environments that evoke emotion and tell stories through art.
• Ability to solve technical and artistic challenges, ensuring that environments maintain visual fidelity while running smoothly in the game engine.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to give and receive feedback constructively.
• Strong team player with a collaborative mindset and the ability to work across disciplines.