Environment Artist

What you will do:

• Create and apply materials across a variety of subject matter
• Troubleshoot and maintain levels to stay in frame rate, memory, and design spec
• Act as point of contact to achieve design and art direction goals as it pertains to building game art

What skills you will use:

• 5+ years experience modeling high quality environments. Likely at least one shipped AAA title
• Strong ability to define complex looks for the most challenging levels with minimal concept art and direction
• Expert understanding of how to build environments in AAA game development
• Collaborative mindset while working closely with other departments to find and propose solutions for the betterment of the game
• Strong art sensibilities related to color, composition and scale
• Self-motivated—can execute the vision for the level until completion in a timely and efficient manner.
• Proficient at sculpting/painting surface details and controlling shader features that represent a wide variety of material types
• Full understanding of shader construction using a material editor for rendering physically based game environments
• Able to create efficient UV layouts and bake textures from high res meshes
• Strong ability to create tiling and trim texture sets
• Manage texture memory and Shader performance
• Great team-player—willing to seek help and feedback from others and give it in return. Being extremely proactive in sharing info and assets. Open to direction and iteration.
• Able to meet schedules, be flexible and proactive, communicating evolving project needs
• Proficiency using Maya, Substance, ZBrush, or equivalent software