Environment Artist

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, the company is always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by the community and users, while constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

Art & Animation

What We Do:
Push 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 looking for experienced Senior Environment Artists to help build several initiatives as part of a collaboration with Disney. Senior Environment Artists are highly talented, creative, and versatile individuals who build the aesthetically groundbreaking and technically advanced environments used in our games. In this role, you will work directly with a world-class art team to help create exciting and compelling environments and own points of interest that will invite the player to discover and explore.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take basic game designs and concept art, utilizing Unreal Engine, and bring new points of interest to life, by collaborating with a variety of stakeholders as an environment art point of contact.
• Work closely with Leads and Production to ensure high-quality delivery of work through tasking and prioritizing deliverables, driving creative conversation with level design partners, and maintaining clear and open lines of communication.
• Work in pre-production by contributing to ideation, building prototypes for both environmental sets and environmental gameplay needs, helping to ensure team success throughout the upcoming production cycle.
• Build and texture assets, focused on architectural and thematic sets, that Level Design will use to dress the environments.
• Serve as an expert in 3D asset creation in DCC tools (3DS Max, Maya, Blender, ZBrush).
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of baking and texturing tools (Marmoset, Substance Painter and Designer) to develop assets in a high-to-low poly baking process, utilizing tileable textures, trim sheets, unique unwraps, and displacement map creation.
• Maintain a strong understanding of performance restraints and develop for multiple platforms.
• Provide mentorship to other Environment Artists, making the team stronger through individual guidance, tutorial and documentation creation, and leading by example through setting and raising the high bar of quality and timeliness.

Requirements

• At minimum, 5 years of professional experience in the video game industry building environments and assets for shipped titles.
• At minimum, 3 shipped titles which exhibit AAA game quality art.
• Online portfolio of previous professional and personal work.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision HRA for employees and dependents.
• Long Term Disability and Life Insurance.
• 401k with competitive match.
• Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, providing free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents.
• Company-wide events and paid breaks throughout the year.
• Unlimited PTO and sick time.
• Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment.

About Us

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years, the company has been making award-winning games and engine technology. Epic's Unreal Engine technology provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, and is also used by content creators across media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. Epic Games values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture and is an Equal Opportunity employer.