Senior Environment Artist bei Epic Games
Epic Games · Cary, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · On-site
- Optionales Büro in Cary
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, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
ART
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
You'll join the Fortnite Ecosystem team as a Senior Environment Artist and help shape the future of Fortnite as a game platform. In this role, you'll have a high degree of competency envisioning and realizing all aspects of environment development in conjunction with vendor resources. You'll be comfortable wearing many hats and adapting to different art requirements as they arise ranging from modeling, sculpting, texturing, terrain and foliage, hard surface and organic art design, scene assembly and presentation skills. Alongside this, there is good opportunity for self driven agency to drive projects from ideation into realization, and work with the art director on high level vision.
In this role, you will
- Work closely with the Art Director to scope, plan and deliver high end visuals
- Help design and drive initiative for new things that we can bring to users
- Drive environment initiatives with minimal direction/supervision
- Participate in content creation and implementation for the Fortnite Ecosystem
- Work with vendors to plan asset kits, test kits and build exemplary showcases of what can be achieved with released asset kits
- Engage with other teams in Epic to learn, adapt and grow the environment art capabilities of the team
- Be adaptable to assist with generalist modeling and texturing requirements where they arise e.g. gameplay items and hero props
What we're looking for
- 5+ years experience as an environment artist
- A broad range of 3D art skills, and flexibility to adapt to different IP project styles
- An artistic eye, with the ability to ideate and design inspirational environment art
- High standard of communication, and relationship-building skills
- Comfortable with change, self managing tasks and adaptable to project scope
- Strong art fundamentals, ideally showing competency in other artistic areas
- UEFN experience a plus
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
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