About the role
What We Do
Push your 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 is looking for a Senior Tech Artist to join our team working on Fortnite Events. A successful candidate should have a deep knowledge in look development, lighting and complex game art. A successful candidate should have a broad knowledge of art creation for games. You should understand modeling, texturing, and animation fundamentals. You should be able to combine geometry, materials, effects, and UE Blueprints to create complex art. You should be able to work with both internal ICs, leads and directors as well as direct vendors to support the more technical aspects of creating art.
In this role, you will
- Create complex materials for landscape and environments
- Be responsible for world lighting, sets lighting, clouds, atmospherics, water lookdev
- Execute on a range of visual styles with emphasis on stylized with a high level of fidelity
- Work with engineers and artists to optimize content for many platforms
- Own gameplay and engine features from the TechArt side maintaining the high-quality bar for Fortnite Events
What we're looking for
- Must have a strong reel/portfolio showing executed game tech art
- Experienced knowledge of PBR principles and material editors
- Establish workflows and tools for other artists to utilize when making unique assets
- Experience using texturing packagers such as Substance Designer
- High level of proficiency in setting up world environmental lighting
- Desire and knowledge of how to push Unreal Engine further
- Desire to work with a team and own features and initiatives from inception to ship
- Familiarity with the Unreal 5 Engine art pipeline
- Experience working on multiple platforms
- Scripting experience Blueprint or other
Company Overview
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina and has dozens of offices worldwide. Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, which is a vibrant ecosystem of social entertainment experiences including first-party games like Fortnite Battle Royale, LEGO Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival, as well as creator-made experiences. Epic has over 800 million accounts and over 6 billion friend connections across Fortnite, Fall Guys, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store. The company also develops Unreal Engine, which powers many of the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, broadcast and live events, architecture, automotive, and simulation. Through Fortnite, Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.