Environment Artist – Hard Surface Full Time

Responsibilities

• Create painterly vehicles, guns, hard surface props, textures, and materials.
• Collaborate closely with our Art Team and Game Designers to create stunning, stylized 3D environments and bring our game worlds to life.
• Iterate on an idea and take an asset to a final optimized state while applying the provided feedback.
• Work with our team to learn different game-making processes and bring creative ideas that can push the environment in new ways.
• Participate in playtesting and engage with team members to enhance the game through collaborative development.
• Work within a very small environment art team where collaboration, mutual aid, and self-critique are key.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience working in games.
• Shipped Games in Unreal Engine 4/5.
• Deep knowledge of either Maya, Blender, or 3ds Max; deep knowledge of Photoshop, Zbrush, Substance, Marmoset, and other 2D/3D tools.
• Expertise in Hard Surface modeling.
• Deep understanding of PBR rules and how to break them.
• Deep understanding of forms, shape language, design, light, and composition.
• Perfect understanding of Retopology, UVs, and baking techniques.
• A passion to get out of your comfort zone, improving and learning new techniques and processes.

Benefits

• Base pay for Environment Artist: $100,000 to $125,000 USD per year; Senior Environment Artist: $125,000 to $175,000 per year; Principal Environment Artist: $175,000 to $200,000 per year.
• Profit sharing and company equity to all employees, regardless of location.
• Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Employer-sponsored basic life insurance & AD&D.
• 401k retirement program.
• Flexible work hours.
• Unlimited PTO and sick time.
• Paid parental leave.